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my sweet boy mr.pinky has developed a very large tumor.
(first three pics are today and last three pics are the week that i got him)
he had a really bad case of fin rot due to one of the lava rocks in his tank tearing it off (lava rocks have since been removed) and he got salt baths 3 times a week for almost a month. he has since improved tremendously and no longer gets salt baths.
a month after his fin rot episode, he started to develop a small tumor but his tumor has developed so fast and it has gotten quite big. i also notice that his colors have faded a bit.
he is eating normally, very active, and always greets me when he sees me.
I have had mr.pinky since march of this year. he means so much to me.
could the tumor be the cause of the lack of his vibrancy? what can i do to make him more comfortable? will he be okay?

i have no idea why she waited this long.

i don’t understand why i don’t show up on the search if a client still has me kept as a request and hasn’t fully booked yet. i’d understand a client would commit to booking after a meet and greet has been done, but now other pet owners can’t find me until the client books????
This makes no sense.

according to the vet tech, my conure has “a lot of blue on the back of her head”. I thought all green cheeks have a bit of blue on the back of their head. Now i’m curious how other ppl’s green cheek’s back of the head look like lol.
Lemme see ur birbs head 🧑‍🦲

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Drop-in visits
Dog walking
Overnight stays
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Thanks columbus <3

No matter what we both do…..we can’t get rid of this algae!!!
My mom has six pea puffers and one hillstream loach in this tank. She feeds the pea puffers blood worms (a super small piece).
Water parameters are perfect (0 nitrites, 0 nitrates, 0 ammonia).
The tank is never in direct sunlight and we use a hygger light that has an 8hr day cycle.
We’ve done everything we could but this algae just never stops. none of our other tanks do this (we have three other tanks in our house).
What the hell is going on ?????

I offered them advice and they said “well i just want the fish kept alive for 7 days while im gone”
🫠🫠🫠 who’s gonna tell em their fish probably won’t even live for 2.
(they wanted me to take care of the fish in MY home)

i’m really at my wits end when it comes to my bird’s “horniness”.
I have been completely rearranging her cage, giving her less sugar (less fruits and treats), making her sleep for at least 8-10hrs a night, making her fly and giving her exercise as well as mental stimulation and lots of foraging toys in her cage…yet she still is very hormonal.
she will be 9yrs old in september and has never laid an egg and we don’t ever pet her back and only touch her on the head.
she’s not showing any aggression besides being territorial of her cage (which she has always been), but she will do this constant squealing noise for sometimes 5-10mins at a time, unprompted.
Is this something I should get my vet involved with? this summer has been pretty bad with her hormones but this squealing thing she will do lasts all year, yet this summer it’s far more often…

Last night I woke up around 1:30 AM because I heard my green cheek conure LOUDLY CHEWING and destroying the wood in her foraging box at the bottom of her cage (foraging box second slide before being destroyed). I went downstairs thinking I’d tell her to knock it off, but the second I approached she acted like a completely different bird.
She became extremely territorial, lunged at me, made noises I’ve never heard before (deep throaty squawk, making herself look bigger) and acted like she genuinely didn’t recognize me. The closest thing I can compare it to is those breeding birds that become super protective of a nest box with their eggs.
I thought maybe the foraging box was triggering the behavior, so I removed it. She was still aggressive and unpredictable, so I turned on a light and she calmed down a little. I tried getting her to step up using a perch since I didn’t trust putting my hand near her, but she refused and wouldn’t even move even when i shoved her with the perch, and she even got hormonal over the shoving!
Eventually I gave up and just sat there quietly. After a few minutes she suddenly walked out of her cage, stepped right onto my hand, started talking in her normal sweet little voice, accepted head scratches, and acted like absolutely nothing had happened. I put her back on a perch at the highest point of her cage, covered her cage, and she immediately went to sleep.
The whole thing has me really freaked out because I’ve never seen her behave like that. Now I’m wondering if she’s been doing this with the foraging box every night while I’ve been asleep and I just never knew.
My concern is that she might be getting hormonal or trying to treat the foraging box like a nest. Should I:
Remove the foraging box permanently?
Rearrange her cage so it feels like a “new” environment?
Remove shreddable toys for a while?
Increase her calcium in case she’s getting ready to lay an egg? (she has never laid an egg before and she is going to be 9yrs old in september)
Schedule a vet appointment?
Has anyone else’s female conure done this??
It was honestly shocking to see such a dramatic personality change almost instantly, especially at 1:30am which she is never awake at. For extra context, she is on a vegetable and pellet diet with the occasional fruit, she is fully flighted, my family and i NEVER touch past her head, and she does not have a “hut” in her cage.

i’m leaning more towards tumors. poor mr pinky had fin rot and now it is healing great after adding tannins and giving him a few salt baths…but now i’ve noticed this :( water parameters are perfect but im really sad about this. i just want to confirm that these are tumors and not ick. is there any way to treat this?

two weeks ago i noticed fin rot on my betta and removed all sharp objects in the tank. i left for vacation for just five days (somebody fed him don’t worry) and i come back and his tail looks even worse.
I changed the filter in the tank and added tannins/catappa leaves.
added pics from today -> last week -> one month ago. also added pics of water parameters as well.
i just don’t know why it’s getting worse and worse :/ i haven’t seen him self mutilating his tail either despite the long hours i watch him in his tank. i just don’t know what to do :(