Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Alaskan]

The only things I actually do avoid,

High salt, high sugar, and caffeine, and chocolate, and alcohol

 

[ronott1]

I do not understand those lists.

My flock has eaten MANY plants from the nghtshade family... And it never made any of them sick.

They have found their way into my greenhouse several times, twice enmass, and ate up every single pepper and tomato plant I had, along with all of the unripe green tomatoes and little peppers on the plants.

I actually let them into my greenhouse at the end of the season, when they eat up all of my tomato and pepper plants. They have also eaten up all of the potato plants in my garden.

They were happy.... Not sick.

I also give them apple cores, with the seeds. And raw potato peels.

I give them to the chickens too. I takes a lot of it and maybe the breeds I have are not sensitive to night shade toxin.

 

[perchie.girl]

Just for informational purposes a RedCap looks like this when its mature they are called Red Cap Orandas and that red part is a bubbly growth of tissue that continues to grow...



Orandas come in many colors as well



this one was listed as sold for 219.00....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

The red cap oranda coloring on that drawing kinda threw me....

You know after looking at photos of Orandas and the picture @saltandpepper2 is drawing... i think you may be right... I misidentified it... No matter its a pretty fish none the less.

deb

 

[saltandpepper2]

Not really just in a Store environment....  incoming fish werent always quarantined.   We also fed live feed on occasion and learned too late its not a good idea.   Blood worms seemed to be the culprit...  Oh they loved blood worms.  But they loved the freeze dried as well.  all good. 

So keeping the Gold fish in their own tank with their own environment is a good idea...  sorry the Beta would get nibbled on till he wouldn't have fins left... 

Betas can go into a community tank though with mollies and Guppies and Sword fish... Just no other Betas not even a female.....  these all live in a similar environment...    They love slightly brackish water as well but prefer it warmer than Gold fish do. 

Ich comes with all fish... any fish that are stressed are subject to an Ich outbreak.   

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=16+2160&aid=2421

Not to worry just buy healthy looking fish and try to put fish from a similar environment in the same aquarium if you want a community tank.

deb

Awesome! Thanks for the info.

 

[saltandpepper2]

You know after looking at photos of Orandas and the picture @saltandpepper2
is drawing...  i think you may be right...  I misidentified it...  No matter its a pretty fish none the less.

deb

The fish to the side of the already colored one is a oranda. I don't think the other one is, but what do I know? Lol

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: The red cap pattern by itself isn't anything to go by; here it is on a Comet:

Whatever variety the fish in your picture is, it is lovely, as is your drawing!

 

[Peep_Show]

I had Ryukins for a bit.... mainly because I loved the egg-shaped bodies.

(yeah, I'm a chicken geek)

 

[saltandpepper2]

HAha, that's awesome. I like them, but my son wants black moors because "black is a manly color" (he's 6) I think I'll compromise and get one moor and one colorful one.

 

[chickisoup]

Thanks for the info about the rhubarb Ron! I have been paranoid about my hens getting into my herb garden and getting sick on my enormous rhubarb plants. I already have a problem with these crazy hens gobbling any rose petals up that fall my rose bushes like they are chicken candy!