Backyard Aquaponics
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When we had a bit of a problem on the farm, I used an old air rifle taped to a chair leg in the lounge room, but carefully aimed at a hole in the screen door on the other side of the next room. I had a string on the trigger, and as the mouse paused at the opening, I could pull the string without any obvious movement and make a very clean kill. All this from my desk.

But for the most part, used normal mouse traps that didnt work at all (but I lost bait all the time) in the end I would cut a small hole in an ice cream container, drop some bait into it, and set a normal mouse trap directly under the hole. The bait wasnt on the trap, just anywhere inside the container. To get in, the mouse would have to drop directly down from the hole onto the trigger. Zero bait lost. Many mice caught. Even if they didnt land on the trigger by some miracle, they would have to stand on it to get out. I'm pretty sure it was literally 100% successful.

It was the birth of the invention engine because of the old "build a better mouse trap" saying.

All mice went to the Magpies that I would whistle in. They went crazy for them to the point of taking them out of my hand. (normal safe distance was kept to perhaps 10 feet)

It's a better mouse trap, but there's no market for an ice cream container with a hole in it.








As usual I give this invention freely to the world. You may make it, profit from it, do do whatever you want with it, but if you improve upon it, I ask that the improved design also falls under this rights agreement, and ask that you give your improved design freely to the world. Just be nice basically.