paperdoll0809
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Hi all! I've had my sun conure for about a year and a half and everything's going well.
I've been thinking of getting another parrot, partly to keep my current one company as I'm in a long-distance relationship currently and often leave him alone for a week occasionally and I just feel so sorry for him. The question is, what would be a good parrot to get? I would like to keep them in the same cage so nothing too big and scary. Nothing small like a budgie either, my parrot WILL bully another parrot if he knows he can get away with it lol. I know my conure does well when kept in the same cage as rainbow lorikeets or a bunch of cockatiels.
My friend recommends getting another conure so "the communication is the same". Is that true? I'm just worried that they will communicate LOUDLY =/. My neighbours put up with one conure that screams occasionally, but two might be pushing it. He was pretty loud when I met my parrot for the first time (he was living with his brother who was going to an aviary). I was told they get louder when with another conure.
These are my options:
- another sun conure (but i have to find out if they will communicate loudly)
- some other type of conure
- quaker (the breeder I got him from bred quakers too so he's familiar with them)
- lorikeet
- eclectus (might be pushing it, eckies are pretty big and I would be nervous about keeping them in the same cage)
Recommendations and advice welcome!
I've been thinking of getting another parrot, partly to keep my current one company as I'm in a long-distance relationship currently and often leave him alone for a week occasionally and I just feel so sorry for him. The question is, what would be a good parrot to get? I would like to keep them in the same cage so nothing too big and scary. Nothing small like a budgie either, my parrot WILL bully another parrot if he knows he can get away with it lol. I know my conure does well when kept in the same cage as rainbow lorikeets or a bunch of cockatiels.
My friend recommends getting another conure so "the communication is the same". Is that true? I'm just worried that they will communicate LOUDLY =/. My neighbours put up with one conure that screams occasionally, but two might be pushing it. He was pretty loud when I met my parrot for the first time (he was living with his brother who was going to an aviary). I was told they get louder when with another conure.
These are my options:
- another sun conure (but i have to find out if they will communicate loudly)
- some other type of conure
- quaker (the breeder I got him from bred quakers too so he's familiar with them)
- lorikeet
- eclectus (might be pushing it, eckies are pretty big and I would be nervous about keeping them in the same cage)
Recommendations and advice welcome!