I have got a habitrail mini cage. QUESTION

[Thunderandwhisper]

I have just brought my dwarf hamsters a habitrail mini cage, because they seemed a bit bored of their other cage. They are absolutely loving this cage especially the wheel, they love it!
Just wondering they have a mushroom water bowl in there, do hamsters learn how to use it quite quickly, if they are use to have a bottle instead? Just don't want them to not drink, and can't fit the bottle through bars of the cage, so can't put the other one in just to be safe.
Any one know the answer to this, thanks.

[Emmaj]

I have never had a problem with rodents using water bowls when they have been used to bottles

infact most of my rodents when i had them had bowls over bottles anyway

[Chazybabe]

Its fine yet it doesnt hold much water and they have a tendancy to knock it over.. as my mice did so was pretty mch pointless you be better off with a bottle or norm bowl its harder for a animal to learn that water comes out of a spout of a bottle than stumble across it in a bowl and lap it like they would natrully in the wild .. =)

[daikenkai]

i just put the bottle on the inside of the cage. Works very well and the mice dont seem to want to chew it...dont know about hamsters though.