Live food - Blowfly maggots - 50 ml

Live food - Blowfly maggots - 1/20 liter

The relatively large maggots of the blowfly Calliphora erythrocephala are a good live food for frogs and toads (and other amphibians) in terrariums and aquaterrariums, for reptiles, for crayfish and crabs and for breeding wild birds or pet birds. You can also feed the hatched flies. If you want to store the maggots of the blowfly for a longer period of time, they must be kept at 0 to a maximum of +1 °C so that they do not pupate.

Blowflies can be bred relatively well. Put the pupated fly maggots into a transparent plastic container (approx. 40 cm x 40 cm x 30 cm) with a tight-fitting lid. Cut a hole in the lid slightly larger than the size of your hand and seal it with a nylon stocking (glue it with hot glue or silicone). Cut off the foot of the stocking and close the opening with a bag clip or a clothespin. This gives you a sluice through which you can reach into the fly breeding container without the blowflies being able to fly away.

The ideal temperature for breeding blowflies is 25 °C air temperature. Place a bird bath in the fly breeding container - blowflies always need access to water. The flies also need a feeding bowl. Feed the blowflies with a mixture of milk porridge (pure or with fruit, from Alete, Humana etc.), some cod liver oil, honey and multivitamin juice. The food should not be sticky, so that the blowflies do not stick.

The egg-laying place for the blowflies is made in a small bowl, in which you put raw minced meat mixed with moist wheat bran. The blowflies will readily accept the substrate for egg laying, as well as the food dish.

When you discover some of the white pen-shaped eggs, put the contents of the food dish and egg-laying dish into a maggot container. A 5-liter bucket lined with damp household towels or a 5-liter canister works well for this purpose. Close the opening with a piece of fly gauze. The maggots of the blowfly are fed with dog food or cat food, or with minced meat. Attention, the maggot breeding on meat basis can develop a very unpleasant smell, it is best to place the maggot containers in the open air.

To feed the maggots of the blowfly, you must wash them thoroughly in a fine sieve before feeding to remove the remains of the maggot food.

Feed the blowfly maggots every day. If well fed, they will pupate after 8-10 days. Then fill the maggot container of the blowflies with cold water. The pupae float up and float on the water surface and can be easily skimmed off with a sieve.
For further breeding you put the blowfly pupae into the fly container with the adult blowflies. They hatch after a few days.

Here you buy blowfly maggots, not adult blowflies.

Suitable for: omnivorous and carnivorous crabs, for crayfish, reptiles, for amphibians, for breeding of wild birds and pet birds, for mantids

Extra tip: Blowfly maggots are super fishing bait!

Content:
50 ml