Hi all. I want to get some ideas on what happening with Houdini. It may seem like a long story but please bare with me and try to help me. I bought 2 green peached faced lovies (around 5 months when we had them) and had them for around 1 1/2 months with out successful taming. Maybe because there are two and really really untame. I went to the pet store and while there fell in love with and bought 2 violet peached faced lovies (not sure how old). I made sure that I pay the first more attention to try and stop any jealousy. Houdini would continuously pace up and down the front of the cage, bobbing his head up and down in between the bars at the violets. After some observation, my husband and I got a large cage with a center partition and put both pairs in there. Houdini and the hopefully female violet were kissing through the bars for a couple of days and generally ignoring their partners. Or the 2 violets and Houdini would sit close to each other and ignore my baby girl (pet name) I thought maybe they weren't male, female pairs and that these two would bond as a natural pair and mate. So we moved the partition, these 2 stayed close together but would pick on my baby girl and the other violet would fight with Houdini. So we put the partition back with the new pair. They immediately started to fight, so we moved every one back to where they started. The 2 violets must have realised what they had and went back to being in love. Houdini stayed close to the center of the cage with the violets but would constantly have a go at my baby girl. It is starting to cool down here (Bahrain) and lovies are getting ready for breeding, so the violets have been put into a cage with a nesting box in it and Houdini and my baby girl are in a smaller cage. Since being put into the smaller cage Houdini is trying to escape. He has managed to open latches that my husband has put on the cage and will sit underneath the food bowl and keep butting it with his head to spill the food every where. I have evened filmed him trying to escape. All latches have been tightened so he can't open them or but the food bowl but he is managing to get the food all over the base of the cage and all over the floor around the cage. As soon as we clean the cage he throws the food every where. My Husband has put some covering around the side of the cage to hopefully try and help with the cleaning. He is taking down his mirror, millet spray and cuttlee fish. As soon as we put them back up he takes them down.
My worries are if I try to take the food from the cage and just leave water and putting the food in a couple of times a day, I am worried for my baby girl as she is in the same cage.
Does any one else think that he is just throwing tantrums because he is no longer near his favourite violet? And will he get over it soon as I want the violets to breed if they will.
Thanks to all for any ideas and advice that any one can give.
My worries are if I try to take the food from the cage and just leave water and putting the food in a couple of times a day, I am worried for my baby girl as she is in the same cage.
Does any one else think that he is just throwing tantrums because he is no longer near his favourite violet? And will he get over it soon as I want the violets to breed if they will.
Thanks to all for any ideas and advice that any one can give.
