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I hate gimborn bottles or any slant tube bottle,
they drip too much. I use them though for medicine bottles
as you have to black them out to use ornacycline. It breaks
down very rapidly in light. I used a fat black ElMarko permanent
marker on this after...as you can see, pour the medicine in
after the feeding everyone. |
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At right the galvanized metal anti chew guard.
Gerbils love to chew on these and cut themselves after making
a sharp edge...and they are very easily climbed by gerbils
and hamsters so they can sit up top and chew the bottle top,
and the tank lid or cage side. You can see the lid has an
angled tube. I have a bunch of these left so I use them for
meds. |
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| The ElMarko Permanent Marker (or similar) will work if the side
of the bottle is not smooth, use fine sandpaper or an emery nail
file if you have to to rough the plastic slightly first. Make sure
bottle is clean and dry, 'paint' the bottle. Let dry for a few minutes.
The marker black will bite in and black things out fairly well.
You MUST rinse bottle, run finger around where anything can settle,
and rinse out the tube every day, then put in FRESH medicine. And
you MUST treat for a full TEN days. Otherwise you just kill off
SOME of the microbes, and those that survive will be resistant to
Ornacycline! Always do the full treatment if you start it!!!! |
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Last but not least, where Tater got to taste
freedom She was the last one to be caught, and was just that
close to escape. She's been jumping ever since. |
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| I hope this helps. What to buy, how to prepare it, how to hold
and feed medicine to the animals. Treat for a full ten days, even
if it's nursing pups, they must be feed a drop each every day with
an eyedropper. Treat everyone in the tank or cage. Make new solution
every day, feed everyone a drop (3 to 4 week old pups get two, adults
one just because I want everyone to smell the same when I'm done.)
I toss 1/2 to 1 ounce of solution a day, at 2 ounces per bottle.
It does NOT keep so don't mix up a large batch unless you have that
many waterbottles to fill/tanks or cages to treat. If treating a
trio or larger, of 6 week olds or older, probably mix four ounces
at a time. You should be able to tell what the group drinks a day,
mix that much or a little more for them, in two ounce units. One
ounce is difficult to split off, so do multiples of two ounces.
I strongly suggest using a different waterbottle to do medicine
with. When done with treatment-soap and water, bleach rinse disinfect,
set aside in case you need it again. |
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