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Oh dear!!! When my budgie got sick while i was away, my mom was the one who had to take him to the vet for me and then administer the meds and extra fluid nutrition. She isn't exactly trained in that sort of thing (never was the one to clip the wings or nails) but she was just really careful and followed the instructions of the vet. She held him in a towel (tried to cover the eyes as much as possible), in a darkened room, and the slipped the tip of the syringe into his mouth, by going in from the side. You can also gently hold either the top or bottom of the beak to help get his mouth open enough. The first couple times were a miss because she wasn't quick enough and ended up spilling half of the fluid onto his chest. But she soon got the hang of it...so i'm sure you will too, especially since you have much more experience handling him. Birds can die from stress, but remember that bud trusts you so the whole experience won't be as bad as if he was in a new place with a stranger handling him. Just try to do it as quickly and gently as possible and then return him to his warm cage to rest. Because he is sick, he shouldn't put up as big of a fight as usual. Did the vet instruct you to add a warm water bottle wrapped in a towel to the cage? I don't know how hot it gets during the day where you are, but its not unbearable, then I would suggest you do that as Bud will probably like to rest on top of it. It will help warm up his chest to fight off the infection. My budgie pretty much stayed on it 24/7 for the first few days, even though the house was warm, and even allowed us to cover him with a smaller towel. After the 5th day or so we finally heard a little chirp from him as he started to perk up! Hope he makes a speedy recovery!

I love it It's funny because its true! I agree, I think in the overall picture, the members that are on this forum tend to be knowledgeable enough to source their answers from different places and not rely soley on the 'expertise' of one person. We are on here because we care, in like the many people that walk in wanting to buy all kinds of fish and not knowing a thing about aquariums. Its important to find a store or several which you feel comfortable in and develop a relationship with...it will help you in the long run. We all have different priorities of what we want from our FLS so its nice to have some variety!

Hi all, does John Peters (Waterplantz on TradeMe) have a contact on FNZAS? Cheers

I don't know if its better because I haven't tried uTorrent. But its better then the old versions of BitTorrent. I don't think it plays the files (I have VLC set as my default player), just downloads them from .torrent to .avi (or whatever the media is). What I do is use the website isohunt to find the .torrent files (they have heaps of TV shows as well), then i use the program BitTorrent to 'extract'/download them into proper media files. And then I use the program VLC to play all my video media. IT PLAYS EVERYTHING and is really unobtrusive! (it will play audio too but its better to have a more elaborate player for that) But if your programs work for you then just stick to them to make things easier

Yay! :bounce: I'm more then happy to share in the future!

Shhh!! lol Also, BitTorrent 6.3 is a really easy and small downloader that has a similar setup to what napster and limewire did. So once you download your '.torrent' files off these websites. You open them up using this program and it will work away at downloading he whole .avi file.

I have to say that I have only been to Hollywood Fish Farm Mt Roskill once as I live in Welly, and although I was also impressed by their stock, I had the same experience as far as getting any service. Had to wait ages by the counter and the person who finally did help me barely spoke or made eye contact. Thank god I didn't have any questions and just wanted my fish so I could hit the road... I chalked it up to them being understaffed or busy or something, but if it is a trend then hopefully the owner will read this and give the staff a pep talk...

Oh my gosh! Hope this doesn't start a huge trend but could I possibly have a really small piece too??? I would pay you for it and shipping to welly. PM me if you can!

They are not located here...search adoos.com, adoos.com.au, etc. and you'll see that they all have the same pictures and stuff. Try contacting any of the sellers and the phone number is 0000000 and the email is an automated form. Also...there are way to many users for such an unknown website.

Don't get SamH started at the Amano shrimp again Or do...either way, he was looking into importing them.

Try isohunt. It works super for me.

I agree, I think the peppering looks really lovely Very cute babies flosty!

Pretty

I think blue rams usually sell. Or maybe try something new that people will gobble up like longfinned bristlenoses or electric blue rams, or long finned angels.

Cat meets glass catfish... ...and then guppies!

Umm science does... "The pigeon blood gene is dominant. A Pure pigeon bred to any other discus will produce all pigeon fry. If the breeding is to a discus with vertical stress bars the fry may be heavily peppered. Pigeon based discus are sold under many names such as Marlboro, Melon, Tangerine, White Butterfly, Blue Panda and Golden." (http://www.discusnada.org/discus/classification.html) And I have been researching as much as possible but it take a while for the eye to learn to pick up colour types...for instance I still can't tell the difference between ocean green, cobalt or blue diamond, so better ask the advice of experts who have been breeding them for over 25 years. In the end its my decision anyways... My problem is not that its a Butterfly, as I like that colour type too...but that he won't answer my question about how old the fish is, and it looks a bit stunted to me. Plus its skinny (looks like someone pinched it behind the pelvic fins).

Well their job is to deliver a package to you, that is what you paid for. Your job is to sit on your butt

I don't even know what to say to this. I would be furious! I think you are in the right not to pay...

Yeah, he seems pretty convinced its a Green ocean...says it was bred from 2 GO parents. I wonder who the breeder was... Maybe we should let him know its a White Butterfly

oh good I'd like to meet Rusty some day too!

Thank you for the replies I will be getting at least 4-6 fish off breeders, so this one was really just to add to the family...but I will avoid it now. I do like the white butterflie so I will try to find someone breeding legit ones in the future. Cheers!

Aww, is that your last day? I won't be able to make it in time

Wow looking good! I really need to get out to Palmy animates when my bf finally gets a car :evil: :lol:

Thanks Flosty, after looking at some adult White Butterflies on the web it does appear more likely to turn into that colouration. Still lovely but I will have to consider the stuntedness...waiting to learn some more history about the fish off the owner. If it is still young then the growth can still be salvaged...