What pets/animals do you currently have?

In my animal collection I currently have:
Guinea pigs - magpie, periwinkle, fluffs
Mongolian gerbil - marshmallow
Fat tailed gerbil - starbar
African Pygmy dormice - echo, plasma, chip, midge, lucky, omega
Lesser hedgehog tenrec - prickles
Degus - lunar, cosmic
Chinchillas (albino) - Crimson, nibbles
Crested gecko - Phoenix

 

I currently have:

• A White's Tree Frog
• An African Dwarf Frog
• A Budgerigar
• An aquarium containing a Lace Catfish, a Flying Fox Algae Eater, a Blue Gourami, a Dwarf Gourami, a Peter's Elephant Nose Fish, and a Mexican Blind Cave Tetra.

 

I have three budgerigars, three Bengalese/Society finches, two canaries, two Mongolian gerbils and a cat, for some time I had a large collection of exotic birds and a backyard aviary - cockatiels, doves, many finch species, about 50 in all, which were given away and sold when I had to move. All had names!
Have also kept tropical fish, fancy rats and some frogs.

I attached photos of the budgies and my two canaries.

 

Island Canaries (the species in the pet trade) can not be red, even in their captive state. My guess is that this individual is a hybrid between a domestic Island Canary and a Red Siskin.

 

Milo is a red factor canary, the red gene originates from a series of hybridization events in the 1920's, but the birds have been bred back to pure canaries since to the point that they are now behaviorally and physically identical to other canaries, except for the gene that allows them to sequester carotenoid pigments into their plumage.

A canary with recent red sisken ancestry would show many more sisken traits, like the bird below.



He does require color food supplements to keep his color during molting season.
The female also has red factor parentage, and she has some pale orange markings as well, though the other breeds (Gloster and Timbrado) predominate in her phenotype.

 

I was about to correct you, as I always understood that red canaries are just other of the zillion breeds of pure canarybird and well stabilished and common since before I born. However I looked for websites to support thas, and I've found that, as you say, the red canary comes originally from a crossing with red siskin. I would had never imagined that, it sounds so strange!

Red factor canary - Wikipedia

 

After a life time with animals I now have three chooks, and one is a Frizzle.

 

1.0 Gold Honey Gourami, Cobi
2.0 Red Honey Gourami, Berlin and Munich

 

1 Domestic donkey - Rocket
2 Muscovy ducks - Turkey & Testudinid
1 Chukar partridge - Maverick
1 Black francolin - Quartz
7 Budgerigars - Crossaint, Milkshake, Peanut butter, Carousel, Willy Wonka, Sonny Forelli, Tony Montana
1 Brown roofed turtle - Christopher Columbus
2 Electric yellow cichlids - Major Tom, Concord
1 Black molly
1 Twig Catfish - The Nautilus
87 snails

 

0.1 Red Honey Gourami, Athena

 

I've kept and bred a lot of animals over the years- budgies, chooks, muscovy ducks, geese, peafowl, helmeted guineafowl, pheasant, ferret, galah, rosellas, quail, cold water fish, hermit crabs, rabbits, guinea pigs, sheep, cattle, ponies- but at the moment I have one Toy Poodle. Looking at getting my first reptiles soon.

 

1 dog - A lab/Pointer rescue
2 Leopard geckos (1.1)
1 Crested Gecko (1.0 I think)
1 Parakeet

 

I just got a cape banded white-throat monitor last week. Captive bred here in the US. Absolutely awesome animal. I've wanted one of them for over a decade, but all available were imports or of questionable locales/quality. It was well worth the wait. Can't wait to watch this lizard grow up.

 

1.0 Dog (Small Münsterländer Purebred)
1.0 Cat (hybrid, shorthair and a forestcat)
1.2 Vampire Crabs

I might expand the collection lateron to a reptile or exotic small mammal.

 

I own a Pomeranian/Lhasa Apso mix breed named Nyles. Don't let his size fool you, that little bugger can be too playful at times. He usually hangs out in the living room, would watch Netflix with my brother, and then play catch in the backyard during the afternoon. As a precautionary measure though, we would fit him with one of those bark collars, as he would yap uncontrollably while having fun, just enough to drive our neighbors mad. Overall, he's a good tyke and obviously has been a family to us these past few years.

 

Currently have a King Charles Cavalier (Misty) and a donkey (Joey). Really need to start expanding the collection again.

 

I have four hens now.

 

Leopard gexko named Fluffy

 

I think you meant gecko.

 

Thanks for clearing that up.