feeding magots?

is it alright to feed my cham magots cause we got tons of them in our garden and by our compost heap, it would be really awseome if i could

It would be fine, but your chameleons will enjoy catching the flies more. I would let them pupate and toss some of the pupae (sp?) in the bottom of re cage or a plant and let them hatch in your chameleons' enclosure.

That's a good question I have been wondering the same with wild caught ones. I know people sell and feed bot flies but how about wild caught? Do you have to do something to protect against germs? I breed rabbits and the flies are attracted to the poop( obviously ) it would be easy to catch them and their larva but what about parasites and stuff? Any experienced keepers out there?

Why not just use them to hatch flies and feed second generation or a few generations down? If your gutloading them healthier things, a few generations down it should clear out if it WAS there to begin with? I could be wrong but that sounded logical in my head... lol

If you have 'maggots' in your compost heap, you might check closely to see if they are actually the larva of Black Soldier fly. These are a really good source of calcium for your chameleon. Black Soldier flies are notorious for laying their eggs around compost piles. You can even make homemade compost buckets to attract them. I have one hanging in my back yard and it is quite productive. Search for pictures of Black Soldier fly larva or 'Phoenix worms'. They look different than your average fly maggot and are easy to identify.

jdog1027 said:

If you have 'maggots' in your compost heap, you might check closely to see if they are actually the larva of Black Soldier fly. These are a really good source of calcium for your chameleon. Black Soldier flies are notorious for laying their eggs around compost piles. You can even make homemade compost buckets to attract them. I have one hanging in my back yard and it is quite productive. Search for pictures of Black Soldier fly larva or 'Phoenix worms'. They look different than your average fly maggot and are easy to identify.

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Very good to know!

Why not just use them to hatch flies and feed second generation or a few generations down? If your gutloading them healthier things, a few generations down it should clear out if it WAS there to begin with? I could be wrong but that sounded logical in my head... lol

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I was thinking along the same lines, just don't know how to go about it (more research )

My dh and I are thinking of beginning our own Bio Pod to produce grubs. I will have to get him to email me that link so you guy’s can check it out. We also do red wigglers lol (great fertilizer “worm Tea”)

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My dh and I are thinking of beginning our own Bio Pod to produce grubs. I will have to get him to email me that link so you guy’s can check it out. We also do red wigglers lol (great fertilizer “worm Tea”)

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Awesome lmk

My dh and I are thinking of beginning our own Bio Pod to produce grubs. I will have to get him to email me that link so you guy’s can check it out. We also do red wigglers lol (great fertilizer “worm Tea”)

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some links:

http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/

A nice do it yourself bio-pod bucket

http://raisesoldierflies.com/

A massive production do it yourself project


I just got a thousand maggots in the mail a couple of days ago and am going to do something like the do-it-yourself bucket but with a big garbage can instead. I'm going to borrow the idea of draining directly into the earth that the bug barn uses, and am going to bury my garbage can half way into the ground and then drill a bunch of holes in the bottom for drainage directly into the soil below. Should be able to grow hundreds of thousands of larvae in there this summer I hope.

I got my thousand starters from here:

http://reptiworms.com/