Bolts through the bars, so it does not get tipped over.
It bolts through the bars rather than sitting on the floor, which is the difference between a bath and a puddle. A freestanding dish gets tipped within minutes.
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Contents: Basin only
Why you'll love it
A loose bath dish gets stood on, tipped, and emptied into the cage floor within an hour. Two screws through the bars is the whole difference, and it is why this shape has outlasted better looking ones.
Four centimetres is enough for a budgie to duck and flick and not enough to be a hazard. Deeper baths look generous and get used less, because small birds will not commit to water they cannot stand up in.
Dry, it takes soaked seed, chop or egg food, the things you do not want in a hopper. Wash it between the two uses rather than switching straight over.
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Bathing loosens the dust and old feather sheath that accumulate between moults, and it helps a bird preen effectively afterwards. A bird in good feather condition is usually one that has been able to bathe regularly, and poor condition often traces back to never having the opportunity.
Indoor air is also drier than most birds evolved with, particularly with central heating running. Regular access to water helps with that, and many birds will bathe several times a week given the chance, which is a good sign rather than a mess to be managed.
A dish on the cage floor lasts about as long as it takes the bird to stand on the rim. Once tipped, the water is in the substrate and the bath is a dry dish, and repeated soakings of cage litter is both unpleasant and a hygiene problem.
Bolting through the bars removes that entirely. The basin cannot be moved, so the bird can put its full weight on the edge and bathe properly, and the water stays where you put it. Check the fixing occasionally, since a bolt that has worked loose lets the basin tilt.
Offer it in the morning so the bird is completely dry well before the room cools in the evening. A wet bird overnight loses heat rapidly, and that is a real risk rather than a theoretical one in an unheated room in winter.
Use plain cool water with nothing added. No soap, no bathing solution, and nothing warm, since hot water strips the natural oils from the feathers. If a bird ignores the basin entirely, try a fine mist from a plant sprayer or a shower perch, since many birds only respond to falling water.
Position it where the bird already spends time rather than in a corner it rarely visits, and away from the food dishes so the splashing does not soak the seed. Give a hesitant bird several days with it in place before concluding it has no interest, since anything new in a cage is treated with suspicion for a while.
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Take it out and empty it after each bathing session rather than leaving standing water in the cage all day. A bath that has been used becomes drinking water for a bird that cannot tell the difference, and it collects droppings, husk and down within hours.
Scrub it weekly with a brush and hot water, since a slippery film develops on any wet surface faster than expected in a warm room. Rinse very thoroughly if you use anything beyond water, and check the bolt fixing while it is out of the cage.
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Every loose dish we tried ended upside down on the cage floor within the hour. Two thumb screws through the bars and this one has not moved in two months. She ducks and flicks in the four centimetres of water and the notched rim stops her sliding about.
They go on easily enough by hand but mine work slightly loose over a few weeks and I nip them up when I am cleaning. Not a big deal and still far better than a dish that slides about. The 18 cm length is enough for a cockatiel to get properly wet.
I ordered the version with the four rattan balls and she spent the first week pushing them round the dry basin before she ever went near the water. Now she baths with them floating in there. Whatever works.
I use it dry most days for soaked seed and chopped veg, the things I would never put in a hopper, then fill it with water at the weekend. I wash it properly between the two as the description says. Sixty grams so it hangs off the bars without pulling them out of line.
The basin is well fixed and the thumb screws are solid, no issue there at all. Four centimetres is apparently too little for our lovebird, who has never once got into it despite two months of trying to tempt her. It works fine as a food tray so it is not wasted.
Wet feet on smooth plastic was the problem with the last one and she came out more than she stayed in. The ridges round this rim give her something to hold and she stands on the edge shaking herself off afterwards. Fixed through the bars so nothing moves while she does it.
I went for the ten jingle balls version and they do exactly what the name says, all day long, which is charming for about four days. I have taken most of them out and kept two. The basin itself is spot on and the screws hold it rock steady.
I put it near the bottom of the cage so the splashing goes onto the paper rather than over the seed, and the two screws let you choose exactly where it sits. Eighteen by ten is a decent footprint without eating the whole floor. Comes off in under a minute for a scrub.
Because it is screwed through the bars she cannot shove it along and slop the lot out, which is exactly what happened with the free standing one. There is still splash, obviously, but that is her doing it rather than the dish moving. Four centimetres deep seems to be precisely what she wants.
Good questions
Birds chase them round the water, which is usually what persuades a reluctant bather to get in. They are an add on to the same basin, not a different bath.
Low, and not under a perch. Anything mounted below a roost collects droppings, and a fouled bath is worse than no bath.
Common, and usually about placement and light rather than the dish. Try it near the front where the room is bright, fill it 2 cm deep, and leave it for a fortnight before giving up.
No. Hand wash, as hot cycles warp the thin plastic and the screws are not stainless.
Two to three centimetres for a budgie or cockatiel. Small birds stand rather than swim, and a deep bath is both intimidating and a drowning risk for a young bird.
A fine mist from a plant sprayer, or a perch in the shower. Plenty of birds ignore still water entirely and bathe enthusiastically in falling water.
Better not. Standing water becomes drinking water and collects droppings and husk within hours. Offer it in the morning and take it out once the bird has finished.
Last reviewed 30 August 2026