➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CoturnixComplex]

When I bought Duckling fish, I was clear about keeping her hands out of the tank when she had cuts.

For everyone who has fish (my current "profession" is actually serial fish store worker ) and doesn't know, you can contract a tuberculosis relative through contact with fish. It doesn't normally cause anything other than persistent hand lesions in healthy people but those who are young, old, elderly, or immuno or respiratory compromised it can be real bad.

This goes for tropical aquariums, aquaponics, particularly fishy lakes, everything. Keep open cuts out of of questionable water and if you do go in clean them immediately afterwards.

You can also get salmonella from all your reptiles incl. aquatic turtles, and it also has a sharp increase in danger for young children etc.

I don't even want to think about everything you can get from poultry. I've had at least one transmissable bacteria in my birdroom and while I got it under control quickly my personal hygiene levels during/after handling birds had to be upped quite a bit after that.

Basically: get a pair of cheap reusable non-coated gloves for everything. Be like @BullChick !

 

[BantyChooks]

Yeah right.
No way. You are nuts.

They've got fragile necks. It'd be way easier than having to manage shears too.

 

[BullChick]

Ohhhhhh no! Don’t make me an example!
Duckling loves having her own supply of disposable gloves.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Ohhhhhh no! Don’t make me an example!
Duckling loves having her own supply of disposable gloves.

I could see being allowed to occasionally use them to make balloon animals with them seeming like a worthy tradeoff for having to wear them as a kid

 

[Kiki]

For everyone who has fish (my current "profession" is actually serial fish store worker ) and doesn't know, you can contract a tuberculosis relative through contact with fish. It doesn't normally cause anything other than persistent hand lesions in healthy people but those who are young, old, elderly, or immuno or respiratory compromised it can be real bad.

This goes for tropical aquariums, aquaponics, particularly fishy lakes, everything. Keep open cuts out of of questionable water and if you do go in clean them immediately afterwards.

You can also get salmonella from all your reptiles incl. aquatic turtles, and it also has a sharp increase in danger for young children etc.

I don't even want to think about everything you can get from poultry. I've had at least one transmissable bacteria in my birdroom and while I got it under control quickly my personal hygiene levels during/after handling birds had to be upped quite a bit after that.

Basically: get a pair of cheap reusable non-coated gloves for everything. Be like @BullChick !

What does serial mean?

 

[CoturnixComplex]

What does serial mean?

I have worked at 3 in a row the last ~6 years, although the first one was my love and one my dad took me to as a kid, and I am heartbroken it closed after almost 40 years the year after I started working there (not my fault! I swear! xD ).

 

[Kiki]

I have worked at 3 in a row the last ~6 years, although the first one was my love and one my dad took me to as a kid, and I am heartbroken it closed after almost 40 years the year after I started working there (not my fault! I swear! xD ).

Neat.
Do you keep pet fish too?
I do know that my local fish store keeps Metronidazole on hand and I do know that it kills some nasty germies for both humans and chickens.

 

[Kiki]

That's about all I know when it comes to anything fish related.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Neat.
Do you keep pet fish too?
I do know that my local fish store keeps Metronidazole on hand and I do know that it kills some nasty germies for both humans and chickens.

Do I! Actually, well, I don't right now, I only have my rabbit snail colony and a mini-reef with some hermit crabs and coral. But at my peak I ran something like 72 tanks and was shipping weekly.

Fish suck. The ethics of getting a hold of good stock sucks, the mortality rate on the way to you sucks, the mortality rate when you have them sucks, the ability to breed most species sucks. I love them to pieces but being involved heavily in them saps your energy after a while. I have kept everything from mudskippers to pipefish to designer coral but I like my bombproof snails and zoanthids for right now. I move too often for anything else.

Ha, livestock supply places are the only place to get levimasole for fishes! It's funny how that works sometimes. You gotta shop around like a fiend when you need a specific med.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Endangered wild bettas were my actual specialty and I'm happy to say at least one breeder in the U.S. has a prolific colony of B. persephone because of work I did way back. They are about to go exctinct in the wild, their last locality is being turned into a rubber plantation. We just moved somewhere with way softer water and I am fighting the urge to get involved with them again