Backyard Aquaponics
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No System, No BSF, No Lawn, No Builders, try a lotto ticket Nige

chillidude,

It smells because it has become anaerobic. Usually due to becoming too wet and not enough oxygen getting into it. This happened to me. My BSF container had no smells until it rained one time and a bunch of water got into the container. I tried for months to dry it back out but it was just too much wetness. The BSF did not seem to mind though. But to rid yourself of the smell, try to start a new dryer container nearby and dump out the smelly one on the ground nearby once the new one has started a colony and hopefully any more that mature will lay eggs in the new one. Unless you feel up to cleaning all the gook off the larvae and moving them over manually.

FYI, apparently they also "hibernate" once it gets too cold. I did not know this and threw out the smelly container once I saw all of them no longer moving in it. Then find out a week or two later about their hibernation tendencies during cold periods.

Yep - tried that - got $12.85 while some bugger in QLD got $40,000,000.00

However, it's not as grim as it sounds - the BSF are still producing. And as far as lawn goes, we do have it, it's just that it never needs mowing and I doubt even BSF could eat it.

Thanks Thorn - Yep - that's where i've gone wrong. It looked overly dry to me so I added some water and milk about 2 weeks ago - my assumption being that the excess liquid would just flow throw and everything would be fine.

I think I'll scrape off the top few centimetres, empty the container, and put the larvae rich layer back in on top of some fresh vege scraps. That should keep the supply going without having to start again.

Jessy - Hope those BSF got up to you otherwise they're going to get caught upi in the damn Aust Post strike.

chillidude , There will be no problem with the parcel <<<< Yes i am 100% sure:)

they may have hatched before they got there

Mmmm - starting to wonder if she's OK - haven't heard anything for 3 days now !

maybe battening down the hatches for TC Laurance

Probably only going to be a water change by the time it gets there...

Is predicted to re intensify when it hits the sea again Rupe so Jess may have it by 23 or 24th if this happens, maybe CD's BSF will get blown down this way

They'll be pretty damn wet then - you'll be able to catch them falling out of the sky

Hi Chilli, thankyou for the BSF ...I think some might of escaped...about 15 turned up lol...and a few emptie husks, and no fly

But the ones alive are great

Thanks Nockie, I haven't been watching the cyclone...my yard is ready for a big hit, we just leveled 2 massive trees to the stump...

Really ? I thought it was taped up pretty tight. - glad you got some then !

it might of been open in transit for a drug check ??? it happens up here, it was very light. They usually , stamp it saying check, but if it was don't onthe Highway...no stamp...the coppers probably dropped it as the flys flew away lol.....this time of year, it does happen