Keeping BSFL

[NashansCamos]

So I am wondering what I should keep my BSFL in. I'm not going to use oats because of aflotoxins, So can anyone reccomend anything I should keep them in?

 

[Chameleomom]

You don't have to have them in anything...just spray a tiny, and I mean tiny, bit of water to keep them moist

 

[Chameleomom]

Make sure it is a container that has plenty of ventilation

 

[NashansCamos]

Should I just keep them at room temp?

 

[Chameleomom]

Should I just keep them at room temp?

Yes and they do better in the dark. I just wrap newspaper around my container and sit them in a box

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

I just kept them in the container and medium they came in—at room temp—and they did fine...
...until they got eaten. ?

 

[NashansCamos]

So no substrate - just a ventlated container?

 

[Chameleomom]

I just kept them in the container and medium they came in—at room temp—and they did fine...
...until they got eaten. ?

I do mine my way because my guys will not eat the larvae but LOVE the flies

 

[Chameleomom]

So no substrate - just a ventlated container?

No substrate...correct

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

So no substrate - just a ventlated container?

Mine came in some kind of medium; I don't really know what it was, and the vendor claimed it was "proprietary" (uh-huh... ). The container was ventilated, so I just left them in it, and picked them out as needed. Only lasted a couple weeks before he ate them all, and by then he was large enough for dubias.

 

[Chameleomom]

I order from someone here and this is all he does and he never puts them in substrate .Been buying from him for 7 years now. I just put the container a side and wait for flies

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

Don't they eat in larval form? I know not as adults, because they only live long enough to reproduce, but as vendors sell various sizes of BSFL, I had assumed they ate something. (Yes, I've seen the farming videos... ? ) I suppose they come with destructions on what to feed them...

 

[NashansCamos]

Don't they eat in larval form? I know not as adults, because they only live long enough to reproduce, but as vendors sell various sizes of BSFL, I had assumed they ate something. (Yes, I've seen the farming videos... ? ) I suppose they come with destructions on what to feed them...

good question - what do they eat? I give my waxworms honey.

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

good question - what do they eat? I give my waxworms honey.

In commercial operations for chickens, they usually eat ?. (Don't all discriminating flies? )

Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) will eat nearly any kind of organic waste ranging from animal waste to food scraps. As the BSFL mature, they grow into ½- inch-long grubs, at which point they climb out of their food source and turn into pupae.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...to_guide.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3aKfrb3gbezuwWuL9IBgik

 

[Lil’ Sneak]

Sorry, newbi... BSFL?

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

Sorry, newbi... BSFL?

Black Soldier Fly Larvae

 

[NashansCamos]

Sorry, newbi... BSFL?

@Klyde O'Scope beat me to it

 

[NashansCamos]

n commercial operations for chickens, they usually eat ?. (Don't all discriminating flies? )

Well let me tell you that I'm NOT going to dump my chams (or anything's) sh*t all over my bsfl container lol. if they DO eat ? then they'll just have to starve lol

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

@Klyde O'Scope beat me to it

And I still type by the "Columbus Method." (Discover & Land!)

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

Well let me tell you that I'm NOT going to dump my chams (or anything's) sh*t all over my bsfl container lol. if they DO eat ? then they'll just have to starve lol

I suppose another way of putting it is that they are TRUE omnivores!