Trixies Fruit Holder
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 4:03 pm
Have any of you seen these or even used them?
The story goes:
I had a lorikeet come in for boarding. and one of these was in his cage.
On closer inspection I see bad corrosion on the shaft. I thought this was strange and started to do some investigation.
Heavy Metal Toxicity is a very real danger to any bird. And yet here we have a chrome plated mild steel food holder that, when the acids from the fruit damage the chrome the shaft will then rust.
I took the fruit holder into my pet shop and asked them to show the rep next time they came in. Well someone threw it out. ASo that one was lost. Shame I did not take any photos of it. It was a in a horrible state.
I contacted Trixies and they were very good with their first reply and said they were assuured by the manufactor that they were made from high grade materials. And asked me to show them the damaged one.
I bought two new ones from the pet store, and told them I would run some tests. Thinking it may take some time to simulate the issue.
I scaratched the chrome coating and placed in citric acid. (Well it is a fruit holder) and the acids from some fruit will eat into the coating.
It did not take very many days before I had some results.
This is what happened in just a few hours of putting an apple on the holder.
You can see the rust on the shaft. And see the apple has only just started to show aging from being cut.
No bird eat this after I used as a sample. I took it from Dexter as I had no others at the time, I wanted to test.
Anybody want to try and tell me this is not going to cause a bird any harm?
Anyway I sent them my results, but have not recieved any reply, yet.
If you buy anything I like this make sure it is stainless and good quailty at that.
I would advise! Be very careful with so called safe products.
The story goes:
I had a lorikeet come in for boarding. and one of these was in his cage.
On closer inspection I see bad corrosion on the shaft. I thought this was strange and started to do some investigation.
Heavy Metal Toxicity is a very real danger to any bird. And yet here we have a chrome plated mild steel food holder that, when the acids from the fruit damage the chrome the shaft will then rust.
I took the fruit holder into my pet shop and asked them to show the rep next time they came in. Well someone threw it out. ASo that one was lost. Shame I did not take any photos of it. It was a in a horrible state.
I contacted Trixies and they were very good with their first reply and said they were assuured by the manufactor that they were made from high grade materials. And asked me to show them the damaged one.
I bought two new ones from the pet store, and told them I would run some tests. Thinking it may take some time to simulate the issue.
I scaratched the chrome coating and placed in citric acid. (Well it is a fruit holder) and the acids from some fruit will eat into the coating.
It did not take very many days before I had some results.
This is what happened in just a few hours of putting an apple on the holder.
You can see the rust on the shaft. And see the apple has only just started to show aging from being cut.
No bird eat this after I used as a sample. I took it from Dexter as I had no others at the time, I wanted to test.
Anybody want to try and tell me this is not going to cause a bird any harm?
Anyway I sent them my results, but have not recieved any reply, yet.
If you buy anything I like this make sure it is stainless and good quailty at that.
I would advise! Be very careful with so called safe products.