briansworms
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I am looking at setting up containers to breed these. They are I believe an excellent food. Just looking for peoples thoughts on them
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I did searches and cant find anyone. That's the reason for my first post but it got edited. I am not selling them but trying to see if there is a market and if so I will look at raising them and be happy to advertise on here.Are they feed to reptiles as grubs? Is there anywhere online we can purchase theses at all?
Rick
I did searches and cant find anyone. That's the reason for my first post but it got edited. I am not selling them but trying to see if there is a market and if so I will look at raising them and be happy to advertise on here.
Yes they are a Super Food for reptiles. I was told that by a Bearded Dragon Breeder who suggested I look into it. I have thought about if for a few years but never researched to see if there is a market.
Are these the fellas?
Hopefully they're not too hard to see.
I have tried to breed them, for 2 months at least. Gave up as I couldn't seem to attract them in Sydney area.
Did get some massive white maggots tho, could have been early stages of them?
Fractal, aren't they just blow flies?
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This is the adult fly.
They are less common in Sydney and south and not present in any number in Victoria (a less prolific native is present but is hard to culture). They are not produced commercially as they cannot be cultured reliably in enclosed facilities (i.e. they breed best using wild flies). The biopod works very well but the biopod company gives a number of designs of home made options. There are two model, the original biopod and the biopod plus (the original designers son was given the company control as a wedding gift, stole the idea and set up his own company and sacked his father, so the story goes) . Both work equally well. I have found moist chook pellets to out-produce any other medium in both attraction and maggot production. They are an excellent food but can be a bit tough for small dragons. If relying on self harvesting (read up on it and it will make sense) then you will only harvest large worms. My biopod has been running for 3-4 years and produces a 1/2 - 1 cup full of worms per day under conditions of mostly neglect. You can at least double this if you look after it well. They start to shut down when ambient temps drop below 20 C.
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