Hi bro

My friend has encountered this problem.  He bought the cleaner from Nesttech and rubbed the fungus.  Let the plank wood dry.  Never use water to clean.

This is his solution and it worked.  Brids all back.  Already an successful BH 1 year.
Hope the above helps.

FYI Nest Tech Ammonia Liquid can be use to clean planks with fungus but do not know if that is the cleaner that Jackie mentioned.

Hi Bro

Ya, amonia liquid.  You should call them up and they will tell you how to apply this liquid and pls remember do not use water. 

May I know how long is your bird house?  My friend's BH is 3 years old, but FYI that he doesn't use humidifier at all.

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Added on November 6, 2008, 9:22 amForgot to tell you to use a brush to apply this aroma liquid.  I am not advertising for this product but simply share you some experience from friend.

Normally there will be more than one association in each state, they always talking bad among themself........ So you can join them by paying registeration fee, annual fee and some compulsory seminar fee if their first two fee is cheap which is just a tool to make money. So there is no any transperance association listed up how they running, their financial flow direction and no open meeting to non member swiftlet farmer. May be their activity is so secretive until not many of us know what are they doing. May be one of the reason is they lack of publicity and contribution to the members, common sense if you are no good to others you expect people to be good with you ? As a forum member here, we have a very strong advantage that's at least we know how to use internet to contact among us, Any incident like Sarawak Mukah and Penang we will be know faster than others.
But of course they are good association out there that may be we don't know them.. If any !!!  member here are welcome to recommend to us so let's us have a bigger family members...........

It doesn't take only members of Association to support the trade activity. It is an association and not a privately owned limited company. Any person who is involved directly or indirectly or is a symphatizer to the trade should join in to show strength and unity. You can bring your grand father and grandmother, uncle, aunt, or friends along. Similarly, those BH owners outside of Selangor should support too. Who knows you may get acquiented with a real sifu sitting same table with a few tips from him could help you to double or tripple your BH's population? I always view this type of gathering better than attending wedding dinners.

Always bear in mind, all those involved in the trade are on the same boat, should there be any leakage in the boat and capsized, no one is spared. For those newbie who are still not member, it is time to consider to join in the association to help make it stronger or even better to offer contribution and service as a committee.

I notice that many BN associations in Malaysia are charging rather high entrance fee of rm 1,000 and yearly subscription of rm 600. In order to encourage more to join in as members and to let association have better and stronger representation esp to the Govt, they should lower the fee to entrance fee of rm300 and annual subscription to rm 120 per BH. The more the number of BH one owns, the higher the subscription. Then only in this way, it is fair. Alternatively, the formula can be calculated in another way. Minimum of one BH at rm 120 per annum with the subsequent one at rm 60 and so on. The more in number of members, the stronger the association.

I could recall one true incident that in the early days that the 1st and the only national BN association was charging entrance fee rm 3,000 and yearly rm 600 with members of less than 60 persons. Some members proposed to lower the fee to reasonable level to encourage more to join, but was shot down by the president which he claimed that this is an exclusive and high class association. During one very important meeting and dialogue session with the Federal Authority regarding control of the BHs in the country, halfway through, an official threw the question of how many members the association had. When the answer of 60 was given, all the officials were shocked and asked 'don't tell us that 60 of you owned all the thousand of BHs in Malaysia?'That was the last meeting as the Authority refused to entertain that association any more as they claimed that association had no proper representation.

As a result of the stupidity and the selfishness of the president and its committee, the membership could never grow and the association could never function properly due to lacking of good calibre and high quality members to serve. In the end due to the circumstances and the urgency, many localised associations are forced to sprout out across the country to tackle the numerous problems in their respective township. I estimate that there are between 30 to 50 BN associations with more to come presently. In my opinion, this is good and more practical and efficient for the local BH owners to resolve their local problems. Also that no individual person under the disguise of committee with hidden agenda to try to dictate the industry and to do monoply and control of the industry for personal gain.

I do understand that there are committee owning 20 to 50 and above BHs paying the same rate as compared to other members owning one or half BH. I personally think this is not right and fair.

Always remember, a healthy association is none profit organization. But without adequate fund to sustain the operation of a basic office and staff and other extras is also a problem. A well managed association can always raise fund through the annual dinner and gathering of members and the various organising of seminars or activities benefiting the members.