skoram
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Yes mine was not happy about it either. I chose my timing wisely. We had a small leak under the sink, for a few weeks, and mold was starting to grow a bit, before I got to it. So I had to rip out the old bottom of that cupboard and out in a new piece. And I told her, that was part of the reason and this was my fix! Shh don't tell her.
You can't see the lines, they are in the underframe of the cupboards floor in the hardwoods groove where it meets the carpets so I don't think she even knows what I did other than fix the drip and the cupboards. I did tell her I was going to do it, and she griped a bit, but the leak is fixed and I think she forgot lol.
If you have a reptile room, I would just run water to it. Tie in a line under the house, and fun a tap and for the RO, and drain it outside. Tell her your setting up a garden for her that self waters.
I've used similar excuses (water leaks) in the past to buy new enclosures
Ultimately I'm not sure it'd be worth it for me to set up such a system as my "reptile room" consists of only 4 chameleons at the moment. I plan to purchase a pair of Kinyongia boehmei later this year at which point it will be 6, but given the *extremely* small size of our home (Korean apartment) I could not fit any more enclosures into the room unless I took out a rack of shelves which contain all my reptile equipment and supplies. Right now I have to refill my Mistking reservoir every 2 weeks which is absolutely nothing compared to when I had 8 aquarium tanks in our house.