Someone should check on 267, it seems that he was abducted while typing that last post.
267, you might think about installing the ventilation shims I mentioned a few posts above. Very soon you're going to have a biological engine running at high rpm's and you'll be dealing the resulting heat. You'll probably see times when large numbers of juvenile grubs migrate out of the main body of the BioPod and into the collection bucket. That's usually because they're trying to escape excessive heat. When that happens you can either remove them (I often feed them to my fish), or you can put them back into the unit when it cools off. Leaving the lid off can also help keep things cooler.
I recently went out of town for 8 days and up to that time my colony was at maximum. I didn't want my girlfriend to have to deal the constant stream of mature grubs that I was expecting so I removed a large number of juvenile grubs. This resulted in greatly reducing the activity (and heat) in the colony and when I got back there were only a few grubs in the collection bucket. That experience made me realize that removing juvenile grubs could be a great management tool, especially for BSF colonies in hot climates with large populations of wild BSF.
To remove the juvenile grubs I used the method described HERE, only I used a larger container. The series of photos below shows one of three batches of grubs that I removed that weighed 8 lbs in total. The level inside of my BioPod was lowered at least two inches. My fish ate well that day.
