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I have about 30 mice in an aquarium, and if I use a water bowel, they fill it up with substrate in a few hours. If I use one of those drip tube things, like all the pet stores have, it lasts about a week, if I'm lucky. Any ideas? Thanks.

I don't know what a "drip tube" is... but I use the aquarium water dispenser, it is unclimbable, doesn't drip, and hangs by a metal wire... If you are lazy (obviously are since weekly is too much work) then just get a few of them

You can always use the larger rabbit/guinea pig sipper bottles. But it is always best to change the water at least once a week. Or you can invest in one of those auto watering systems.

Ok, if you don't have a problem with shavings being kicked into the water dish and just it being tipped over then if you get a large water dish you can try placing some clean rocks in the center to way the dish down. For the water bottle with the dripper, if you meant that its get chewed up in about a week, then you can try to find and buy a metal cover for the plastic, or you can build on so that they cannot get to the plastic. You'll only have to worry about sharp edges to the metal. Hope you find some thing that works for you.
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1.0 ball python (vakker)
0.1 border collie/german shepard (maya)
2.1 cockatiels (sydney, ozzie and petrie)
1.1 chinchillas (ziggy and elmo)
0.1 mice (callia)
0.0.1 Emperor Scorpion (not named yet)
1.0 betta (grim)
25 fish (too many names to put here)

I went back and read your post and it said that it got filled with shavings(the problem I always have with dishes), so the only thing I can think of is the metal cover if the bottle is being chewed.
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1.0 ball python (vakker)
0.1 border collie/german shepard (maya)
2.1 cockatiels (sydney, ozzie and petrie)
1.1 chinchillas (ziggy and elmo)
0.1 mice (callia)
0.0.1 Emperor Scorpion (not named yet)
1.0 betta (grim)
25 fish (too many names to put here)