Angelic Vampyre

Oh Mine is half that size I love it, also love the play gym on the top.

In anticiptation of getting my new King Parrot I wanted to ask you all here to post pictures of your larger/non budgie birds. Post what they are, who they are (personality) and pictures of how you keep them. I know that alot of you have larger birds or other birds and I would love to see them. I did do a search to see if there was another topic on this but could not find one. Thanks in advance

Your just to smart! I think neat got my Master the Beta fish joke but not sure.

I am sure it was, will find the CD when I get home and upload the pictures for you.

glad you know what you are talking about I think I will call him Richard.... Anyone get why?

A little off topic but still on topic, got handed a CD of pictures from a budgie show and was looking through them and there was your Herse!

OH GOD! okay so now thinking going to have to convert some of the garage for him! :hap: Was going to do that with a branch but it's finding the branch that is the issue. Maybe I should look around for some further out from Burwood. Might have to take a drive up pas ferntree gully and see what I can find up there.

I have been researching like mad but there is not alot out there. Had a chat to MB about food for him last night and feeling a bit better now that I know he is not going to starve to death. When I get him I am going to take him to the vet just wondering if I should do this on the first day or should I let him settle for a week? My research has found that they do not handle stress at all, more so then Budgies so now I am freaking out that I am going to stress him to death... or hes going to stress me to death! Started looking for branches and stuff to build him a play gym. I am trying to work out how I can section off a room or something so he can have free run of a room during the day and only really have to be caged at night but not sure I have the space. On the weekends I want him to spend most of his time out of the cage and I figure that if I build a play gym in my Study once the bed is gone then it will give him some more room.

The goldfish/fancy fish are kept in a different tank to the Tropicals so not worried about them eating Master. Master has two girlfriends and both of them lived in a tank with a Male for a good six months before I got them so they are use to him and so far he chases them around the tank. MB was going to get one like that but he did not look that well so got Master instead, he didn't look that well either but the best of the lot and also he matches his girlfriends. I can't believe the difference a few days in a bigger tank with warm water has made! Also MB thanks I thought he was a Lion Head but was not 100% sure, I just feel in love with him!

okay some pictures of my fish Brain Tumour - look mum I found a friend New Guy - MB what is this? Master the Beta fish One of masters girlfriends Shark Fish I also got a new sucker cat fish that is zebra coloured but he could not come out from under the rock

I have to agree some things in there are not cheapest all the time but Jock knows what he is talking about when it comes to birds and ivan knows birds and as I found out today fish, he has been breeding them since he was 5! Also you have to remember that in the past year they have been pulling almost a $40,000 loss so they are doing some things at great prices. My Fish tank set up cost me around $500 for both tanks another place I went to where going to charge me $600 for a tank set up the same without fish!

WOW you never stop amazing me with your skill level! Looks great!

Sure it's Burwood birds and Pets it is on Toorak Rd just before it becomes Burwood High way city side of Warrigal Rd. they are having a closing down sale and I think about 25% off most things, 10% of bird things. MB next time I am in there will talk to them. So i am assuming that you have been in there? You went with out me *crys*

I would be a little worried about the leggs if you can get into see the vet it would be good. Otherwise one very cute boy!

Are you talking about the suger glider that he has in there? i will talk to him about the price and see if we can work something out. he is very good at over pricing things to put people off but when someone is really intrested in them then they do look at dropping the price. originaly Ollie was $600 when he first came in to put people off then came down to $400 and I got him for about half of that. my License should be fine but i have to check where my renewal is.

Go buy some of the plastic hall runners from Bunnings and put that under the cage if it's kept on carpet makes clean up a little easier.

Yes he was handtamed, he had a glitch in his taming and is a little shy but as long as you don't shove things at him and move slowly he is right. He hates being poked but then again i would not poke any bird and he has worked out that if he grabs your finger (not hard and it does not hurt) then you pull back and scream and he thinks that if funny (comes from being in a pet shop with people doing this to him all day long). Funny thing is that there is a sign that says "please don't touch the Parrot" up near his perches. i walk in there today and he starts making this funny noise and lunches himself at me and I have to catch him (his wings are clipped) freaked out this family that was in the bird room. he starts trying to feed me and then the lady starts screaming at me that I am not allowed to touch the bird and I am going to get her in trouble and then he starts flapping and screaming at them and they ran from the room then he settled dawn and starts trying to feed me again Ivan came in and laughed at us. then when I went back later today (had to swap over a fish) this guy was trying to buy him and I felt like crying. This guy is know to the store as he buys animals and a few month later comes in and says they are dead and blames to store, ivan was refusing to sell him so i step in and pretend that I have already organised to purchase Ollie. Then get talking to Ivan and the other guys and they offer me the reduced rate and I agree to pick him up in a week or two. Part of me knows that I should not have but the other part breaks when i think about not having him, it was shocking how upset I felt when I thought he was going to be purchsed by anyone else. Anyway, he can say Pardon and count to three if he wants to. He currently shares his space with three other Budiges who he is happy to sit next to and even attempted to feed on today, poor budgie also choked to death! I am feeling a little better about the price as I have seen then hand rasied for about $300 - $600 for the same age. I rang two places today that have good reps at hand raised parrots and all of them where at least $100 over what I am paying so not feeling too ripped off. Ivan has been very selective over who he would let take him and as he has started to bond with me then they sort of hoped that I would take him. It's a big step and I am researching like mad, I am going to have him for the next 20 odd years so I was glad when my partner was okay with me getting him.

okay so I was bad and I bought a King Parrot today, well I sort of Adopted it. You know Ollie the king parrot at my pet store well the owner comes up to me today and says as they are closing down they have to clear stock and he is worried what is going to happen to Ollie. We where chatting and then well I sort of got offered him for alot less then his price tag. (we are talking over 50% less) I know I know I should not have but I do really like him and he has started to bond with me, I go into the room and he leaps for me or tries to fly to me and starts trying to feed me which is a little gross but I can deal with that and there is this other guy who wanted to buy him but keeps killing animals and I have the room and he gets along with Budgies (not that I would ever put him in my aviary with them). *breath* I am going to pick him up in a few weeks as I have to sort out my wildlife licence as my renewal has not come yet so have to work that out and have to move some birds around so that Ollie can have my old patio cage which will do him for now but will look at saving for a much bigger cage in the future. Cause he is use to being with alot of other birds I am going to move the breeding cages around to give myself some more room so that Ollie can go out there in his cage for the first few weeks. I think he will feel more at home in the Bird room and then I will bring him into the house when I get my study sorted. okay now off to research perches and feeding of a King Parrot. So now that is it. I am done no more pets for me for a while..... okay you can all stop laughing now!

thanks guys I thought that two but started to second guess myself.

okay thanks MB I have little red nosed tetura (sp?) in there with the betas and one other thing that I think is suppose to be a tetura but looks differnt and does not swim with them. will lower the temp by a few degrees. As for the oranda I will see about getting him another friend.

Already added it to one of the comps

Hmmm might go back and get the other one, the only issue is that he seems to love the top of the tank and floats sort of upside down with his head down and his but in the air so I am thinking he might not be 100%

okay then I was really hoping that Butter would be a lut but hey just happy they are health Will have a better look tomorrow in the light

that's what i thought but he is acting like a hen. Will leave them another week and see if anything happens

yes 2006 albino split with lacewing