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CHONG188

click on "Small Animal Watering"

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CHONG188

www.agselect.com/ED/Features.cfm?DID=11&QAID=3

go there for a detailed setup of the system.

dan

Dang, those pics on the AG website are nice, I didn't know they had any instructoins, but it is easy enough to do w/o any instructions, just tools and time.

The most important thing is buying (from AG Select, when it is all said and done, they are CHEAP, FREE SHIPPING !) EVERYTHING you need. I didn't know that I was going to need several parts, I just got what Dwight Good had listed, as I knew he had insight and did it right. I had all of the parts that are not available saved, but the disk got messed up, and I bought the stuff from school, the info isn't on my computer. I also just looked and couldn't find the receipt.

Here is what yours should look like when your done

That whole system was $33.50 to my door, plust $4 for the bucket. The water was actually free rain water collected from a gutter.

"rain water from a gutter"?...

i dont know about you.. but i know i dont live in a CLEAN city (dont think there are any left).. i wouldnt want the nasty crap thats up in the air to get into the water and then into my rodents.. which would in turn go into my snakes!

that was a joke right?..

No.

After the live plants in my python's cage kept dying (of course largly due to the python that crawls over them), my grandmother suggested rain water, due to the absence of treatment chemicals that "clog up the roots".

It works better, the plants don't grow but stay alive.

I have extra out in the garage, and it beats using the sink to get tap water, plus its free, though it may or may not be good for rats.

I'm not into giving my rats a hard time, but they are rats, and live at dumps, where the cleanest water they could ever hope to get would be rain water.

I even drink it myself when I am around it and it strikes my fancy.

On another note, how many bins do you supply with your auto-watering system? How often do you clean or purge the system?

Later

Jon

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CHONG188

agselect is the place to go for automatic watering systems.. one of the few places around that sells all the parts, and comes with free shipping..

trust us

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OKay i make a rack with 2 tupperware containers, and in the front of each tupperware container i drill a hole thats wide enough for a spout for just a small animal water bottle to go through, then at the center of the top of the water bottle i drill another hole then i insert a tube that fits in this hole practically perfectly then on the other end of the tube i put it in a hole that is drilled in the side of a 5 gallon bucket, so would water come out of the 5 gallon bucket and just keep the water bottle filled all the time
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CHONG188

water bottles work under the principle of PRESSURE.. thats why they kinda leak at first.. the pressure built up inside the bottle keeps the ball from leaking water...

by having a hole in the top and a tub.. it would just run the contents of the 5 gallon bucket straight into the tub..

also drilling a hole thru the tub is a real bad idea.. it wont take them long to chew right out the side of the tub once they get their teeth on the hole..

dan

I am sure you could build an automatic watering system yourself, if you know what you are doing. Valves, 1/4" tubing etc can be purchased at most hardware stores. However I don't know enough to do it myself though I probably can get my brother to build one. Afterall, he made his own water cooling system for a computer CPU. However, knowing my brother, it would be cheaper for me to order it from the site listed above.