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[Akraziatic]

Hey everyone,

Been lurking around the forum for the past month learning as much as I can ahead of picking up my first apistos last week.

Started off with a young pair of cacatuoides.

Looking forward to learning more about the dwarfs.

Cheers,
Mitch

 

[Linus_Cello]

Welcome! Where are you? What type of cacs? Wild or double or triple reds?

 

[Akraziatic]

Welcome! Where are you? What type of cacs? Wild or double or triple reds?

Sorry Linus_Cello.

In Canberra, Australia.

They're Triple Reds with no certainty of generation. Australia is pretty challenging to find wild caught due to the strict bio security on importation. Hopefully one day but I'm sure I'd have dived deeper into some of the other species by that stage.

 

[Linus_Cello]

Australia has been in the news a bit related to marine-life.

And I thought salt-creep was bad:
In May, members of a family living in a suburb of Adelaide, Australia, scrubbed the coral tank in their home and went to bed. A few hours later they awoke, struggling for air. The family was “quite unwell with breathing difficulties,” said Daniel Hamilton, a spokesman for the South Australian Country Fire Service. All of seven members of the household were hospitalized, the youngest child in the intensive care unit.

Within an hour, Hamilton said, emergency responders traced the incident to the scrubbed coral. The animal reacted to the cleaner as though it were a predator, spewing a chemical that spread through the house as an aerosol.

Officials on the scene quarantined the building. “This isn’t the sort of thing we’ve dealt with before,” Hamilton said. It took three hazmat removal groups wearing breathing apparatuses and suits to clean up the mess, Australian newspaper ABC reported. They neutralized the toxin with bleach and vacuumed up the particles.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...omepage/story&utm_term=.8a19870e6c80#comments


How do you survive in Australia? You have some of the most venomous creatures in the world. Sea fleas ain't inviting me to visit any time soon (though I guess I better sea the Great Barrier Reef before it's dead soon...):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-winner:homepage/story&utm_term=.2d8259db08d1

 

[Yvonne G]

Welcome!

 

[Akraziatic]

Haha wow! That's crazy! Thanks for reminding me why freshwater tanks are safer, I mean better...

Don't worry Linus_Cello, us Aussie's are immune to all of the deadly animals thanks to Kangaroos being our main mode of transport...