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Conure life
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I know yall say you donā€™t have favourites but Iā€™ve definitely had more people request more pics of Newt than I have of Toto soā€¦ā€¦..
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I absolutely love seeing Toto bathe, because I am forced to consider that things I thought were weird quirks of my quaker, like holding up one foot for a while before awkwardly splatting down into the water, might just be species traits. Except this only raises more questions in my mind.
Quakers work in mysterious ways
So mysterious that they donā€™t even know whatā€™s going on
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A couple of seepy eepies
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It is ALWAYS time for screm
Sincerely, a conure
Truer words have never been spoken
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Wingaling
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Newt: time for screm
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Rare floofed newt
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New hat just dropped
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Thanks for the info!
Itā€™s definitely one of those areas of research thatā€™s really new as far as captive parrot keeping goes, so we all err on the side of caution with these things.
When thereā€™s been reports of massive eye damage occurring as a result of UVB exposure we take that as critical information and respond accordingly! I donā€™t deny thatā€™s itā€™s totally possible to use higher doses in different scenarios, itā€™s just a matter of is the dose necessary to get the benefits parrots need from it vs the risks associated with the higher exposure. Which is all currently vastly under studied unfortunately
So as parrot people with highly sensitive birds we tend to take the more cautious route
Hopefully we hit a point where more reliable studies are done and more reliable bulbs are able to be produced!
In the meantime we utilize lower UVB output bulbs to help over the winter seasons and get them outdoors throughout summer!
Hello! So I'm sure you've seen from my previous comments that I'm in the facebook group Reptile Lighting. Someone posted today looking for uvb recommendations for their African Grey parrot, and mentioned that a lot of parrot Facebook groups claim that uvb causes blindness. Do you know more about this, and why people think that? Could it be that someone was using a bulb in a very small cage where the bird couldn't self regulate their exposure?
UVB in high doses does cause damage to a parrotā€™s eyes, thatā€™s the main reason why they canā€™t use reptile bulbs and have to have parrot specific ones. The UVB output is much lower and the bulbs will have set regulations on how long theyā€™re recommended to be left on for (usually one hour in most cases) as well as how far away the bird should be from the light
Parrots are usually spending the majority of the day in shaded areas in trees when the sun is at its peak and do the majority of their active foraging during sunrise and sunset when the sun is less intense so their eyes just arenā€™t evolved to handle the intensity of the sun at high noon like basking reptiles are!
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Heā€™s been sitting like this for five minutes
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So i saw your answer post where you said the name of the rubber ball you used for treats (the hol-ee roller one)
i got two mini size ones for my two cockatiels, and i would just like to thank you for the name (and the trick to cut the ball in one spot to be able to put the treats in) because my cockatiels love them and also it's a lot better than the vine balls i used before !
(i still use them a bit, but those get destroyed SO FAST and also they get dirty very very fast šŸ’€ at least the rubber balls are easy to wash!)
Glad they enjoy them! They definitely last a while, Iā€™ve had some of mine for about 6-7 years šŸ˜…
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Hello! So I'm sure you've seen from my previous comments that I'm in the facebook group Reptile Lighting. Someone posted today looking for uvb recommendations for their African Grey parrot, and mentioned that a lot of parrot Facebook groups claim that uvb causes blindness. Do you know more about this, and why people think that? Could it be that someone was using a bulb in a very small cage where the bird couldn't self regulate their exposure?
UVB in high doses does cause damage to a parrotā€™s eyes, thatā€™s the main reason why they canā€™t use reptile bulbs and have to have parrot specific ones. The UVB output is much lower and the bulbs will have set regulations on how long theyā€™re recommended to be left on for (usually one hour in most cases) as well as how far away the bird should be from the light
Parrots are usually spending the majority of the day in shaded areas in trees when the sun is at its peak and do the majority of their active foraging during sunrise and sunset when the sun is less intense so their eyes just arenā€™t evolved to handle the intensity of the sun at high noon like basking reptiles are!
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Why is Toto ok with the deeper bowl of water, but not the shallow plate?
Purely because he wanted to bathe today
Toto doesnā€™t like getting wet, he only hopped in the tub because he wanted to have a proper bath
With the shallow dish Iā€™m trying to convince him to step in moisture when he doesnā€™t actively want to be wet. So itā€™s aversive in that situation, he finds being wet undesirable so anything involving moisture outside of the context of wanting to clean himself on his own terms will be aversive and unpleasant
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Looks like Toto is taking swimming lessons from Newt but heā€™s just Not Getting It
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Soak šŸ‘ those šŸ‘ toes šŸ‘
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