Product Review - Classic drinking bottle
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Review 1 of 6
Place Purchased: Pets at home
Price: £1.19
Score: 9/10
Pros:
I’ve been using a Classic Hamster bottle for 2 months and it’s always worked perfectly: it’s never leaked or gotten blocked.
The bottle is transparent, which I find particularly helpful as this provides a very convenient way to check the bottle is working: I watch my mice drinking from their bottle at least once a day, and if I can see air bubbles appearing at the bottom of the bottle and rising to the top, that means water is successfully coming out of the spout. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to see these air bubbles if the bottle wasn’t completely transparent.
Finally, the choice of 3 colours in the Colortone range means you can choose a bottle to match (or at least complement) whatever cage colour scheme you might have.
Cons:
All the cons of this water bottle apply to most other water bottles too: the wire that holds it to the cage can be a bit fiddly to attach; the bottle drips a bit as it’s being fitted due to it being shaken around; the metal ball bearing and metal spout make some noise when the bottle is being drunk from; and the spout is too large to fit between cage bars narrower than 8.5mm. And as with all water bottles, you may just be unlucky and get a bottle that leaks or gets blocked.
Overall:
I would recommend this bottle and buy it again. It’s inexpensive, it’s worked perfectly for me, and it’s the only bottle I know of that comes in a selection of colours. I’ve only marked it down 1 point because it hasn’t got a less fiddly way to attach to the cage.
Reviewer: Cub
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Review 2 of 6
Place Purchased: Pet shop
Price: -
Score: 8/10
Personally I prefer open dishes but when I have used a bottle to provide extra water I found this make to be better than some of the more expensive ones. Used properly it is easy to attach and fairly drip-less.
Reviewer: Tagalong
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Review 3 of 6
Place Purchased: Notcutts
Price: £1
Score: 10/10
The best thing you can get for “watering” your mice! They are cheap and last ages in two respects: they stay together for a long long time and the water in them lasts ages providing you get one big enough! I have never once had a problem with one although I have heard of the little ball bearing getting stuck. You can get a “clip on” one for cages or a “sucker” one for tanks, and both are the same great quality!
Reviewer: AdorableMouse
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Review 4 of 6
Place Purchased: Local petshop
Price: 79p (mouse size), 99p (hamster size)
Score: 10/10
I’ve found these to be the best bottles so far for mice. They’re cheap, simple to attach to the cage and they last forever. In 14yrs of using these I’ve only ever had one with a spout issue and the ball getting stuck. So long as you correctly attach the lid/ spout to the bottle to create a vaccuum no drips should occur. To do this you need to cover the end of the spout with a finger/ thumb while attching it, and then immediately turn the right way up and tap the end till you get water coming out.
The wire that comes with the bottles I find isn’t really long enough to use, if you want to quickly change the water. However garden wire/ cable tied/ hair bobbles are cheap and easy alternatives.
The only disadvantage is if you have a cage with bar spacing under 8mm as the spout can bend the bars to make a square-ish wider hole. In circumstances where the mice are in a cage like this due to houdinii aspects it’s best to attach the bottle from the inside or use a bowl.
Obviously you can go for the larger sizes, however as all water should be changed (and bottles cleaned) at least once every 24hrs irrelevant of how much water there actually is this isn’t needed for mice.
Reviewer: Acapae
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Review 5 of 6
Place Purchased: Diss Garden Centre
Price: 99p
Score: 10/10
I have always used these bottles and I think they are brilliant! They are cheap but they work! I’ve bought other types of bottles in the past, some were a lot more expensive and they didn’t even work! I trust these bottles and I will always use them!
Reviewer: *Amber*
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Review 6 of 6
Place Purchased: Any Petshop (Vic AUS)
Price: Between $6.00 to $12.00AU (Depending on what size bottle you get)
Score: 9/10
Pros
Easy to drink from for your mice and are cheap for how long they last. They are easy enough to clean. Attach to the wire of your cage with either a piece of wire or the plastic clip that sometimes comes with some of the bottles.
Cons
They will start to leak once they get old. And some algae will grow on the inside of the bottles. (I place mine in a sink full of very hot water to soak, you can see the algae in floating around in the water after some time).
Overall
9/10 – They last forever as long as you look after them with regular cleaning and check they aren’t leaking too much.
Reviewer: Poppet
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