Lixit Heavy Duty Deluxe Glass Water Bottles for Birds, Dogs and Small Animals. (32oz Large Tube)

I so wish I would have gotten them long ago! Mine are used for birds. (Society Finch) They save me from opening the cage and risking my birds getting out (to our four awaiting cats). This, alone, is an awesome feature. Heavy duty construction and material. I don't think a person could ask for better. I am completely satisfied with them and they make my job of watering SO much easier. The last (silo type) waterers I had would get stuck and my birds wouldn't have anything to drink in the trough. They were made of plastic (another thing I did NOT like) and were very difficult to wash and keep clean. (Seed hulls were always in the drinking trough.) With these my birds always have water. And it's clean! No "bacteria soup". (Please let me mention here, if you change them out every other day (like I do), or a couple of times a week, once a week, check the ball each morning on the spicket when you're taking care of them. Simply roll your finger across the end where the ball is. To ensure that it is where it's supposed to be. If your finger is wet, it's doing it's job. It takes only a second.) Others mentioned the work in attaching them to the cage. And that is so. (All the hardware is to keep bottle safely, and firmly, in place.) I had my 16 yr. old son help me. He, holding the nut with a crescent wrench on the inside of the cage, and I, using a flat head screwdriver on the outside. (Those are the only tools needed.) Having two people made this little job SO much easier. (I can't imagine doing it by myself. I don't think I would have been able to.) This set up DOESN'T take long at all. Very easy, simple instructions...and you're done. Wash the bottle/spicket, fill up, pop in the rubber stopper, and you're ready for use. When needing to change the water, you simply push up the little metal bracket holding the bottle at the top (shown in picture) and pull out the bottle. Very easy and handy! These are easy to clean with a bottle brush. And a nice WIDE mouth to the heavy duty glass bottle makes cleaning a cinch. WONDERFUL! (Bottle can also be put in the dishwasher if you want. I hated to try it for fear that the painted on red "LIXIT" word would be compromised and it wouldn't look new. I'm picky!) These (I bought several), are an excellent product and I simply couldn't be happier with them. Yep! I wish I would have been able to get them LONG ago.

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The media could not be loaded. As I explain in the attached video the bottles can intermittently fail to allow animals to access the water due to an easily fixable matter of crimp placement in the tube. The ball can get vacuum locked out of reach of your animals, so it looks from the outside like they have plenty of water but in reality they cannot access it. This issue may happen frequently, or it may not happen until months have gone by. Unless you check that the ball is properly set in the end of the tube every day you would never know if your animals have been going without water. This happened to my birds a few weeks in, and thankfully I was still being cautious enough about the new watering system to notice the problem before they died (though I suspect they had no water for several days).In order to be used safely Lixit needs to fix this issue, or you must add your own crimp in the tube to prevent the ball from receding out of reach.This is a great product AFTER it has been modified with a new crimp, but I'm leaving one star until the design issue is resolved from the factory. I currently use these bottles to water two cockatiels and a caique. The water stays fresh for 2+ weeks and it's been a lifesaver to be able to leave town for a couple days and count on them being watered. It's a shame that it currently requires customer modification to ensure that reliability.

I bought three of these for my rat cage. For duplicity and because the cage is pretty big and rats drink a lot of water! I have 2 of the 32oz and 1 16. They are a pain to install but once you get it right it's fine. They do sometimes drip and i have 100% success with just taking the stopper out and putting it back, though most of the time if I ignore it it stops eventually on its own. It will sometimes drip if it's really hot out though, but that is the nature of this kind of bottle. I had to bend the cage bars a bit to accept the medium nozzle but that's fine. I prefer to use glass or stainless steel where I can and I like the slightly wider mouth these offer. The 32oz is like one of those glass milk bottles. You could probably interchange the two but I've never tried. Easy to clean and impervious to temperature, dust, UV light etc. If you have small or weak hands it's a little hard to undo the clip to remove the bottle from the carrier for refill.

States it's good for african grays but I think a smaller version would have been better. Somewhat difficult to mount, but not a huge issue. Sturdy. Easy to clean.

I ordered two. the box came UPS half opened. labeled GLASS and sounded like the two bottles i ordered were shattered. turned out to be the screws hitting the metal, thankfully nothing broken or missing. i see why it cost so much, very good quality all metal. the rubber is decent quality to hold a seal. the instructions can be confusing for those who dont realize you need to pinch the side bracket to move it up. many may think its upside down and install it wrong. hard to explain in instructions so i cant blame them. just look at pics and make sure the wire points down when closed. i put a picture of the bracket to squeeze and lift when removing the bottle. both my birds liked it asap and used it within minutes of install. hopefully my pics help someone.both bottles ( medium 16 oz ) leak but its like 1 drop every few min if so. i filled it to the top, i also relieved pressure with a fork like some said to build some pressure but nothing worked. other than the drip it was perfect. I would still order it even knowing i get a drip here and there. although hopefully they package it better next time.