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I've had the same Petmate black plastic water fountain for years, but noticed lately that it's had a LOT of disgusting bio-film build up on the surface of the water, and the plastic gets unbelievably slimy even though it is completely cleaned regularly. https://www.amazon.com/Petmate-Deluxe-Fresh-Flow-Dog/dp/B0002DI3TK I fill it with clean tap water (we're in Chicago and our water quality is great), and it gets completely disassembled and run through the dishwasher to sterilize once a week for everything but the pump, which we take apart and clean by hand, and replace the filters with fresh regularly. But still it is getting incredibly gross, and I can tell that the animals don't want to drink from it - they'd rather drink the bowl in the other room dry, and then I hear them licking the dry bowl, when this one is full. It's obviously time to buy a new fountain. But which one? My gut instinct is to go for stainless steel to prevent bacteria build up, but some information I've seen also says that non-porous ceramic can be as good, or better. At the same time, they warn that if you get cheap, porous ceramic, it will be lovely. Great - how to tell? http://glacierpointforcats.com/2015/10/29/pet-fountain-slime-the-good-news-2/ I've seen people saying that Glacier Point fountains are made in the USA and high quality, but drat, are they ugly. We have a small combined kitchen/dining/living area where the fountain lives, so ideally it won't be very loud either. I'd buy a couple to try out, but the nicer looking ones are rather pricy, and I don't want to shell out for something that I'll need to quickly replace if it doesn't work well. I have two cats and a midrange (35lb ) dog drinking from this, with other water also available in a bowl in the other room. A larger reservoir would be helpful so it doesn't need to be filled constantly - right now we fill it every couple days, and that's okay. Any recommendations? Pictures because, hey, who doesn't like pictures?  
EVG fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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Why ceramic over stainless?
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FutonForensic posted:Do they have this kind of motor? I don't think I've seen any fountains that DON'T use that motor. I'm okay with cleaning the motor out weekly - we do that now - but something is still getting bacteria build up. Our current fountain wasn't always this nasty so maybe age has something to do with it.
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