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Building the ULTIMATE MAGGOT FEEDER for My Back Yard Fish Pond!

Building the ULTIMATE MAGGOT FEEDER for My Back Yard Fish Pond!

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I will show you how to make maggots at home using only very simple tools like a drill, saw, some wood, rope, wire, and some rotting meat. I wasn't sure if our trophy hatchery rainbow trout pond fish from Lyndon would love maggots or not, but the results are surprising! Maggot Life Cycle The life cycle of a fly begins when a female lays an egg on a food medium like rotting meat. A female fly can lay up to 150 eggs at a time. Over a period of a few days, the female can make 5-6 batches of eggs. Eggs are deposited in compost, manure and other decomposing organic material. Eggs resemble very small grains of rice. After 23 hours, the eggs hatch into the first larvae stage known as a maggot. These are legless white insects. They are basically worms with a mouth piece. All they do is crawl around eating voraciously. During the maggot stage, they will molt several times, once at 27 hours and 22 hours, and finally into a pupae at 130 hours. After feeding, the maggot will find a place to pupate or cocoon into a brown hard shell. This protects the inactive fly. Over the course of three to six days (143 hours, the pupae develop legs and wings, ultimately emerging as full-grown house flies. Within two to three days, female house flies are capable of completing the life cycle and depositing eggs or mating with a female
Date: 2021-06-11

Comments and reviews: 6


So many tadpoles the maggots are almost unnecessary. Might make a bigger impact later in the summer or even in the winter if you can figure out a way to combat the weather. Awesome concept though. I've used it for chickens and I'm contemplating making one for a couple crawfish holes I have closeby that are so jampacked they cannibalize the little ones due to low biomass.
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My grandfather told me to hang a rope across the pond with an LED lightbulb hanging from the center and 2 plexiglass baffles. The insects see the light and drop into the water when they fly into the baffles. Also, check out the bojo fish light. I bought one for my father in law.
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I would've done it like a clothesline: a loop secured by pulleys on both trees. Then the box doesn't need to slide on a tube. It could be knotted to the clothes line directly. But this seems to work. There's so much good design presented in this video!
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That thing worked great, of you did upgrade to a cable instead of rope it would hold up alot more stuff, funny how you both had the same idea, hey I'll pull him into the water, that would have been so funny, great video, be safe and have fun
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You could spray the chicken wire and the whole thing for that matter with black rubber coating. Metal and wood will last longer and it'll absorb sunlight so it'll keep the maggots around longer
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The rope is going to get eaten up from friction by the edge of the pipe and those ropes don t do well sitting in sun the fibers get weakened but great idea nonetheless guys.
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