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Conference 7.286::pet_birds

Title:Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN!
Notice:INTROS 6.X / FOR SALE 13.X / Buying a Bird 900.*
Moderator:VIDEO::PULSIFER
Created:Mon Oct 10 1988
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:942
Total number of notes:6016

830.0. "Air Cleaners" by SWAM1::DEFRANCO_JE () Mon Nov 08 1993 13:56

    Let's talk air cleaners.  With Winter coming and the birds spending
    more time in their room I am thinking of getting a good air cleaner. 
    Presently, I have a Bionaire 300 which is old, the ionizer is broken
    and just not doing the job as well as I would like.
    
    Seems the new things with air cleaners are ions and ozone.  Bird Talk
    advertises some of them.  Does any one out there have one of these new
    fangled air cleaners?  How do they "really" work?  What kind of price
    range are we looking at?
    
    I have 7 birds in an 11 x 12 foot room and it does get dusty.  Clean as I
    may, the stuff just floats around in the air.  There's got be a better
    way!
    
    Thanks,
    
    
    Jeanne
    
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830.1Cleaner airHERIAM::CARRIEMon Nov 22 1993 16:1413
    I had the same problem...with four exotic birds in my studio, the air
    was at times stuffy...No matter how clean you keep the cages, birds
    do have a smell of their own!!
    
    I ended up at Sam's club and got myself an "Enviracare" air cleaner.
    
    What a job and all for 144.00, cheaper than most and high on the list
    for top air cleaners.  Definitely recommended, although, keep in a
    room adjacent to the room the bird is in....the air cleaner can be
    somewhat noisy and bothersome to the bird.  Also, it blows air which
    could cause a draft.
    
    /Carrie
830.2Get one with an ionizer for the full effect...SPARKL::COMPTONMon Nov 22 1993 18:517
    I got a Bionaire air cleaner with an ionizer built in.  It is the one
    that cleans a 20' x 30' space three times an hour.  I don't remember 
    the model number, but it costs about $110 at discount stores.  It has
    made a **major** difference in the breeder room for our cockatiels.  I
    leave the ionizer on at night on low as a 'white noise' factor, which
    has virtually eliminated night thrashing as well.  Wish I could afford
    some kind of machine like this for every room in the house! /Linda C.