I hang a bit of wire mesh over one side of the tank and attach the bottle to
the mesh. It seems to work fine. I make sure the lid is really secure at
this point to stop them climbing up the mesh and pushing the lid off or
whatever.
Whenever the lid is off Black I has learnt to climb up this and straight
into my waiting hand.
----- Original Message -----
From: Leenknegt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 20 January 2001 17:09
Subject: Bottle in tank
> Hi all!
>
> I wanted to know: how do you guys hang your waterbottles in your tanks?
> In Belgium it's very hard to find a bottle which you can easily hang in a
> tank. I once found one, but it is very onpractical and it takes too much
> place. So I made my own bottle holder.
> I took a plastic water bottle from 0,5 liters, I cut of the top. At the
> bottom I make a hole to put the tube (lack of a better word: the piece
where
> they drink from) through. That way I have a holder for my bottle, and the
> holder I hang up in one corner of the tank.
> I take 3 piece of mesh wire and put them together so that I have one
corner.
> This I hold together with brass wire. This corner goes over one corner of
> the tank and I attach the holder at the mesh wire.
> Now my problem is that two of my gerbs have taken a bet: they want to
> destroy as many holders as fast as possible. So today I could replace the
> first one. To prevent this from happening I put a very nasty tasting stuff
> on the holder (which they obviously didn't like), to prevent them from
> gnawing at it (at least, I hope!)
> For the ones who followed me this far (congrats!), are there any handymen
> out there that know the perfect way to hang a bottle in a tank?
> THANKS, sorry for the long story!
> Sarah
