I think that this thread has.....and will continue to......introduce more new members to this forum than any other thread ever has before.
The great holy grail of this project would be to find a starter food that BSF would target yet wouldn't attract the other fly spieces.
Definitely a legendary thread.
BSF's already have the highest calcium and Ca/P ratio of any feeder worm and probably wouldn't require 'gut loading' at all for feeding to herps (especially turtles and their high calcium requirements). However, I am curious to see if a high calcium diet for BSF larvae carries through. Particularly, I want to start my colony off on a diet of primarily mustard & turnip greens and something relatively new called Green Amaranth (or Chinese Spinach). The Amaranth sounds especially promising as it is the highest level calcium green veg I've been able to locate.
Now I just need a biologist to compare before and after calcium levels of the larvae.
Resident Turtle Guy with 200 gallon pond in his turtle pen
