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I keep forgetting to ask this so I am going to do it now before I forget again.

Can anyone recommend some good water bottles that generally DON'T leak? I'm trying to decide on glass or plastic but my main concern is I am sick of drippy bottles.

Currently have some glass "Honey & Hopper" bottles which tend to drip only a little bit they are a bit of a pain to clean if honest due to the hardwater in my area. Actually... I am thinking of switching all the animals to mineral water because if I don't drink the yucky house water why should they?

I'd also like to hear some tips on how to keep the bottles from developing drips. I know with plastic it helps to give them a bit of a squeeze to create the vacuum. But aside from shaking the glass ones are there any better tricks?

Thanks
 
I have the same bottle as you but it doesn't drip at all!

We have very hard water and I use a water filter although I don't think my 2 ever drink even a drop of water.
 
*kate* said:
I have the same bottle as you but it doesn't drip at all!

We have very hard water and I use a water filter although I don't think my 2 ever drink even a drop of water.
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I recently read that to avoid a glass bottle from leaking the best way was to discard the spout and replace it with a spout from a plastic bottle of the same size. This seems rather annoying as you are essentially paying for 2 bottles and throwing half of one away!

Ours have little plastic corn cobs in and I fill it right up
 
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Squeakz said:
I recently read that to avoid a glass bottle from leaking the best way was to discard the spout and replace it with a spout form a plastic bottle of the same size. This seems rather annoying as you are essentially paying for 2 bottles and throwing half of one away!

Ours have little plastic corn cobs in and I fill it right up
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Very strange that they leak as mine has the little plastic bit in it too and I don't even have to fill it to the top to prevent leaking!
 
Maybe mine have just got "old" and I shall have to buy new ones. I am jelly yours has a carrot in, the little corn husk is UGLY.
 
I remember mine was a living world bottle, I did think about using baby sterlizing tablets to clean the bottles. Providing it's well rinsed I would have thought it OK. Unless someone knows different.
 
I've had classic plastic water bottles, and I've had the living world ones - all leaked in some form or another. Recently I bought one of the Ferplast Sippy container instead. It's a permanent feature which means you just top it up. I have so far had it up for a week and I'm trying to work out if it's worth spending the extra money on it. The jury is still out but I'm hoping these work better than all the other bottles I've had.

I use rice to clean the inside of the bottles, hot soapy water, followed by Milton sterilising fluid to clean them. I reuse the rice again for the next clean, work really well.
 
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I've had classic plastic water bottles, and I've had the living world ones - all leaked in some form or another. Recently I bought one of the Ferplast Sippy container instead. It's a permanent feature which means you just top it up. I have so far had it up for a week and I'm trying to work out if it's worth spending the extra money on it. The jury is still out but I'm hoping these work better than all the other bottles I've had.

I use rice to clean the inside of the bottles, hot soapy water, followed by Milton sterilising fluid to clean them. I reuse the rice again for the next clean, work really well.
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Mine were terrified of the Ferplast sippy! :lol!:

Rice is brilliant at cleaning slightly green bottles!
 
my old bottle still works and it was a cheap bottle. The new one works, too and is cheap as well... But the bottle and the special water for newborns I buy for my piggies and for my kettle (Rome has a very hard water, good, but hard) is used only for playing and making a cool paddle underneath. They have learnt the game and I go on filling the bottle wasting the water...
If you want to buy mineral water, read the label and have a look at the fixed residual which should be very low. Water for newborns,the one used for preparing formula milk is the lowest residual (20-40mg/l) when normal mineral water can have also 1500mg and more.
Anyway, I know that filtered water, obtained with normal home filters which work with special salts, cannot be used for newborns' formula and little children because the final filtered water has a higher amount of salt. The harder is the original water, the more is the amount of final salt in it. Maybe if the piggie drinks a lot, it would be better to avoid such amount of salt...
 
Evian and Volvic have it written on the bottle that it's ok for babies. As I drink either, finding a brand is not an issue. :tu:
 
I have both the Classic plastic large bottle and a glass living world bottle, I clean them with a bottle brush and light bleach solution once a week- rinsed well. Both these bottles used to drip but no longer do, I don't know if it depends on how you attach the plastic ones to the cage and at what angle? Just a thought
 
The angles affect how much the bottles drip. The New World ones don't drip at all on my commercial cage but drip all the time on my C&C if attached to the outside of the grids, they don't drip if you use the cradles and put them inside as they are completely upright the vacuum seems to work better. I have noticed the plastic ones drip if the sun goes across them or when the heating comes on but they adjust themselves as the water temperature stabalises in the bottle.
I scrub my bottles out with a brush and hot soapy water and rinse well with clean water daily. I find cleaning the lids with a cotton wool bud easiest. Once a week I use baby bottle steralising solution (Milton or Boots).
I filter my water in a Brita jug as we are in a very hard water area.
 
I use the Honey and Hopper bottles and they drip once, maybe twice after they get moved and I've found that to be it. I'm not a fan of plastic bottles tbh, I've had two different pigs (one 12 years ago and one 6 years ago) who both managed to repeatedly break the spouts off plastic bottles. They were both biters, I think - they'd bite at the spout to get their water and eventually the whole thing would need replacing. I know what you mean about cleaning them though, the mouth of the H&H bottles seems overly narrow.
 
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