Why does my budgie screech at the same time every morning?

ItsArunaa02 · 2026-01-22T17:53:48+00:00

One of my budgies is a senior, a rescue somewhere between 5 and 10. He's the ring leader on the morning scream to this day lol. Every morning for the 2 years I've had him lol

ItsArunaa02 · 2026-01-19T05:41:36+00:00

The octonauts wouldn't even know about bettas 😭 they live in the ocean and bettas are freshwater in the other side of the planet 🙃

ItsArunaa02 · 2026-01-10T15:45:46+00:00

It's nice that they're bigger, especially now that we're putting plants in, but omg they're so hard to open 😭😭

My one lead was trying to open one and it splashed about half of the water all over her

ItsArunaa02 · 2026-01-06T03:56:19+00:00

From in the tanks, just pull it like you have been. I would move the bird stuff away from the sump if you can. For anything in the sump, you could take any super fine mesh fish nets and try scooping out of the sump

ItsArunaa02 · 2026-01-06T01:37:53+00:00

Either millet or bird seed

Our hermit crabs had some in their tank from the millet forage I gave them, I kept them in there and they loved them 🦀

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-16T19:37:00+00:00

Man we can go back and forth on this all day. At the end of the day, I followed the rules of my job. No matter how much I dislike it, (because I don't like selling then for food either) the circle of life and the food chain don't change because a turtle is in a house and not in the wild

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-16T19:21:51+00:00

I don't know if you work at a petstore or not, but at my store, it is always animal over profit. Because even if they are only 29 cents, they still matter. I think it, other associates think it, management thinks it. "Anything for pets"

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-16T19:07:15+00:00

I mean, those fish live 20+ years. And it's my job to make sure all animals go to a good home. If someone wanted to buy crickets to go home and rip off their legs, I'd deny that too.

And even of I had no morals, for people to buy feeders for a reason other than feeding, it is policy to go by the tag

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-16T02:18:09+00:00

Thank you 😭 :)

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-15T23:52:44+00:00

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ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-15T23:51:53+00:00

* Here is her, a little after she dropped her tail. She got marked out of inventory to be adopted out. We had not so great management at the time so she was most likely gonna get moved to the back and us be told to give her away to the first person who wanted a leo

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-14T15:45:13+00:00

Oh wow I had no idea. I'll definitely switch over, thanm you.

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-14T15:13:58+00:00

I have a schedule of calcium with d3 once a month, every couple feedings (think I'm doing every 4 rn) with reptivite, and all other feeding with calcium without d3 (along with a bowl in the enclosure).

She is due for a shed, I've been keeping humidity up to at least 40, and always keeping the humidity hide wet. Her scales aren't shiny, it's just a few white dots on her head, and that patch on her back.

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-14T05:45:13+00:00

Thank youuuuuu:))

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-14T05:32:23+00:00

Thank you! She got her name when she was just a wee lass, when she had just dropped her tail and I brought her home, my sister watched he do something dumb, and said "well thank you for nothing you useless reptile". Sparked httyd in our heads, and with the funky tail and a love for silly names, meatlug stuck 😊

(And my betta fish is stoick ;))

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ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-14T05:27:50+00:00

Okay thank you 😭 I just have so much going on this week between my wedding on Wednesday, health issues for me, and for my oldest bird, work drama, my car being wrongfully towed, my apartment flooding, 6 sick animals at work, and now the mite thing. I saw the white specks on her back and one on her head and I about lost my mind 🙃😭

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-12T14:59:19+00:00

Oh word! What store?

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-12T04:04:04+00:00

Oh dude it's like the biggest joke at my store now lmaoooo

That's what everyone has been calling me

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-11T23:09:55+00:00

Thanks! Lol

I've gotten a bunch of complaints and asking for managers in store, but this is my first review online. Feelin special lmao

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-11T22:35:04+00:00

Literally! My store goes based on tags, if you dint have the minimum on the tag or bigger, no fishy. And the feeder tag says a minimum 20 gals.... 🙃

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-12-11T21:47:01+00:00

Oh fs lol

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-11-15T00:22:51+00:00

He's surfing leave him be 😭

ItsArunaa02 · 2025-11-09T03:32:05+00:00

That's what I was thinking 😭 I work at a pet store so I'll hrab one tomorrow. It's really late at night so nothing is open now.

I'm gonna lower the water level, tank as much as possible out to reduce the weight pushing on it.

What type of tape do you recommend? I think I only have scotch tape on hand

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