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how do people feed their rodents who live in tanks and such. I have a pair of natal rats that are in a 10 gal tank and I use one of those ceramic bowls but they soil there food and scatter it. I wanna make a feeder bin kinda like what's used in feeder bins and racks...
any ideas would be great...

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1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Rex- "normal" orange fire)
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Glutany- German Giant Mix)
0.1.0 Okeetee Corn (Okatee)
1.1.0 Spotted Python (Hotdog and Shoelace)

In one of my tanks I use an old Ware Mfg Lab Block Hopper. It's basically a basket made out of 1/2" x 1" coated wire that holds 2 lbs of lab blocks. They have to eat through the bars or work out a block one by one.

In my other tank I have a homemode copy of the first one, but made out of 1/2" PVC coated mesh.

You won't happen to have any pics of something so I see what you are talking about do you?
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1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Rex- "normal" orange fire)
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Glutany- German Giant Mix)
0.1.0 Okeetee Corn (Okatee)
1.1.0 Spotted Python (Hotdog and Shoelace)

I made a bunch of these rat cages out of 10 gallon aquariums. I removed the top plastic rim, then with a glass cutter scored the sides in half. Tap from the inside and remove the upper half. Re-glue the plastic rim on the lower half. Now you have a half high 10 gallon aquarium. Or would that be a 5 gallon short? I cut the sides in half so I would have some spare pieces to fix broken sides. Not all will cut easily.

I made tops from 2" strips of plywood sized 1 3/4" wider than cage and 1/4" deeper. Also 3/4 x 3/4 cleats for the underneath at the sides and some 1/8" strips 1 1/2" x width of top for the remaining two sides. Add some formed 1/2" wire and voila.

I took a couple of pics:

I used these cages for many years until I upgraded to a rack system. IMO the rack system is WAY better but for smaller volumes these cages did great for me. Notice there are spaces for three water bottles and they are "armor plated" so the rats can't chew the bottles. Three bottles definately extends the time between bottle fills.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
19.29 BRB
13.18 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats