screening maggots

[wagga]

BTW Danny thats a great avatar you have.

You previously mentioned that there is limited space available in the smaller aviaries. Would a small cage covered in fly wire,approx 30cm3, set up with maggots in small takeaway containers suit your requirements. Add a false bottom wire floor, 12 x 12mm, with a cat litter tray to catch the waste. The cage could be attached to an external wall/walk way which will enable a external door to service maggots and a small internal door with a perch for the birds. The internal door, 10 x 10cm, is placed near the bottom of the cage as the majority of the hatched flies would go to the top of the cage. The always inquisitive wrens will soon find the fly wire cage door via the attached perch.

I intend making these one a larger scale for my moth trap.

Might be worth making one and see how it goes.

[Danny]

BTW Danny thats a great avatar you have.

You previously mentioned that there is limited space available in the smaller aviaries. Would a small cage covered in fly wire,approx 30cm3, set up with maggots in small takeaway containers suit your requirements. Add a false bottom wire floor, 12 x 12mm, with a cat litter tray to catch the waste. The cage could be attached to an external wall/walk way which will enable a external door to service maggots and a small internal door with a perch for the birds. The internal door, 10 x 10cm, is placed near the bottom of the cage as the majority of the hatched flies would go to the top of the cage. The always inquisitive wrens will soon find the fly wire cage door via the attached perch.

I intend making these one a larger scale for my moth trap.

Might be worth making one and see how it goes.

The avatar was freshly acquired this morning http://www.heathersanimations.com/birdsone.html - there were hundreds to choose from but most were oversized and when you reduce them they just become an image. Just hover over one you like , right click and save as an image. I expect to see everyone with an animated avatar by the end of the week.

My big issue with wall-mounted anything is ants - all the feeders are currently mounted on stands that sit in the middle of the water bowl and this has worked well for years. Your idea is what I had in mind but doing it in an ant free way has me stumped.

[wagga]

I had that problem in my old aviaries with the ants in the maggots. To overcome the ant problem I made a stand to sit in water, similar to yours, and the whole lot was sat on a weldmesh shelf 5-10cm away from the external feed door.

[Danny]

I think I have designed the fly dispenser - off to Bunnings. I will post the design once it's made and functional. It's hell inside my head somedays.

[Myzomela]

That's how you function best, mate!