GW, Not much traffic on here at the end of the summer just before school, huh?

I read all the info on your diy bucket idea. Really enjoyed reading it. Makes sense to me and my problem on my containers are the exit ramps. Your biocomposter has the ramp going up to a hole and then straight down to the collection bucket. I know why now. This is a very good set up. My tote, on the contrary, has a 1 1/2 inch see through hose that they like to walk up but seem to sense the downward motion after coming out of the tote and then some of them turn around. My other container with an exit ramp has a piece of pvc that ends with a 90 so they drop straight down but I don't know if they are even getting up it yet because the inside of the pipe is slick and dry. You see both containers with the exit ramps go to the same collection bucket and that is why I can't tell if they are getting up the pvc pipe. What would you suggest as an angle for slick dry pvc pipe as I read somewhere the angle needs to be sharp enough so that housefly maggots can't exit and then get consumed by the BSFL.

For some time now I have had 5 other containers with differing moistures and food content. Two of those have red wrigglers in them and I am putting 100% paper and cellulose items in one of them and a mixture of cellulose and dry scraps in the other one, but as for growing larvae, it has come down to 2 metal 5 gal buckets and a plastic 5 gal bucket, one on top of the other 2, and I throw wet scrap in the top bucket. This set-up slowly drips juice into the bottom 2 and I put dryer scraps, not lint, in them. No exit ramps in these buckets though. I forsee a problem with overcrowding here in about a week.

I have a drip pan about 30 by 50 by 1 in. deep that I keep water in to stop ants. The buckets are on a piece of plywood atop 2 4x4s that are in the water mote. This way, when larvae crawl out, they can hit the plywood and crawl off and hit the deck and escape to pupate instead of the water mote and drown.

Have you noticed that the BSF size after pupating is in proportion to its living condition as a larvae. In other words if the larvae is small at pupation time, the fly is small.

I wonder if the fly grows after becoming a fly? I don't think so since all of its time and energy goes into producing eggs. What do you know about this?

And I read somewhere that the BSF has some kind of nectar extractor in place of a mouth. The nectar must keep it going for the week.
By the way, I haven't started the big box idea yet, but I do have the box and the pvc pipes ready to go.

My main tote of larvae is now dry and today is the first day it is staying under 100 degrees. No stink atall (texan talk)

I always get long winded when getting on here so I will stop for now.

My wife is, now that the stink is gone, getting into looking at them and putting scraps in. Alright!!!