water bottle holder?

[Queen Of The High Teas]

how do you get the water bottle to stay upright in a bin cage? I don't want to drill a hole in the side incase the hams start chewing at it and escape! Need a cheap homemakeable idea if poss as I'm on a tight budget!

[Hamtastic]

Apparently there are wooden cubes with holes at Pets@Home that you can put a bottle into (upside-down).

SnickersTheFirst posted photos of hers here (top left):
http://www.hamstercentral.com/community/housing/4937-lets-see-your-cages-128.html#post215433

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s320/Ronaldo2007_2007/DSCF4422600x450.jpg

[racinghamster]

Or, use a plastic juice/water bottle, cut off the top, place stones, pebbles or sand in the base to weight it down. Make a hole in the front for the water bottle spout to fit through. That`s it! :)

Just make sure the bottle is weighed down, placed in the cage with substrate/litter placed around it to hide what`s inside the bottle and measure upwards from there to make sure the holder is high enough for the water bottle to fit inside and be easy to take in and out. The spout should still be easy to reach, but not too low that it`s near the litter on the cage floor.

Cheap and cheerful. :)

[Erin Loves Dwarf Hamsters]

This thread has some tips on how to make water bottle stands if you just scan through it :) http://www.hamstercentral.com/community/housing/18129-tips-hints.html

[Pravandi]

Here (http://www.hamstercentral.com/community/diy-do-yourself-hamster-projects/14478-pravandis-decoration-housing.html) in my topic, I show some. Maybe you can get some ideas from here:)

[zany_toon]

A cheap version is to get a bird feeder from poundland and cut a hole in the side like I did. It works a treat for my meeces and for Harry my hammy :)

http://i889.photobucket.com/albums/ac93/zany_toon/DSC03270.jpg

Total cost was £1 :D

Are you the same colliewobbles from PF that was asking about mice?

[Queen Of The High Teas]

Zany_toon that is a really great idea, I never thought of putting the bottle like that, and it means that it can't be chewed at either! Yeah, I am the one from PF asking about mice, your tips helped me alot, thank you. I put them all in a big bin cage and the smell went down, so I think they were marking the cage bars. They also stopped fighting once I took them out of the tank - I still can't get them to stop peeing on EVERYTHING I put in their cage though:rolleyes:!

[zany_toon]

Zany_toon that is a really great idea, I never thought of putting the bottle like that, and it means that it can't be chewed at either! Yeah, I am the one from PF asking about mice, your tips helped me alot, thank you. I put them all in a big bin cage and the smell went down, so I think they were marking the cage bars. They also stopped fighting once I took them out of the tank - I still can't get them to stop peeing on EVERYTHING I put in their cage though:rolleyes:!

Glad you like the idea :) It works great for my mice and they seem more prone to chewing things than Harry :lol: I haven't gotten up to a single holey water bottle (and soaked cage!) since I used the birdfeeders in the naughty mice cages :D

I'm really glad that the tips I gave you for the mice helped :) Hopefully your boys won't fight again, it really does seem to be that part cage cleans make a huge difference to them :) And, yeah, boys will pee on everything in their cage :lol: :rolleyes: It's them trying to outscent one another and claim their territory (my single boys are far less likely to make a mess than the groups!)

[kyrilliondaemon]

We currently use kitchen roll tubes with a hole for the spout - Biggest catch is that our russians think the inside of the tube is a great bed so keep tipping them over. We use double sided tape (against the tube and the cage wall) and careful placement which has mostly sorted the problem, so if you really can't do anything then you can use kitchen roll tubes from the rubbish :)
I think its somewhere on this site that I got that idea and its working pretty well for us - the boys've had them for a fortnight and seem happy with it :)
Just be warned - Our russians adore sleeping in them when tipped over (despite having toilet roll tubes in there for play), so if they fall over check carefully for sleeping animals before putting them back up. We accidentally trapped one of the boys in one for a while, he didn't wake while we moved it, so he woke later and scratched until we realised where he was and moved the tube to let him out.

[Redame]

I use Velcro, certainly cheap if you have some laying around in the house!

[Sunflower]

you can use this
Living World Metal Water Bottle Holder (http://www.petland.ca/living-world-metal-water-bottle-holder.html)

I found it at Petsmart. It can be hung on the edge of a tank so I am sure you could hang it in a bin.

Here is what it looked like when I hung it on the tank: