Today I tried harvesting some BSF eggs that were laid on the garbage can lid and liner. I began by cutting out the areas of garbage can liner that had eggs on them, but then I noticed that they flaked off easily. Instead of being sticky they're more oily, and they slid off the liner easily when scraped with a knife blade. If you look closely at the image below you can see a shiny spot where I harvested a clutch (?) of eggs.
Here's my harvest:
After harvesting the eggs I put them into a 1 gallon plastic container with a lid. I rinsed it out first and left a little water and added some Gamefish Chow.
Like much of what I do I'm not really sure why I'm experimenting with a BSF hatchery. It would be simpler to just let them lay their eggs in the BioPod and let them develop there. Maybe it will be easier to share eggs with my friends than to ship larvae...
