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Rickeezee
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 Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: Maggots |
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I bought a pint of undyed white maggots today £2 and a large bag of maize £1.25.
Dug out some old cricket livefood tubs, decanted maggots, managed to get 13 reasonable size maggot feed tubs out of one pint! Not full to the brim but enough for a decent feed session per tub.
Not sure if it's true or not but I did get told the dye used for maggots now is just vegetable dye and not the old carcinogenic stuff that used to be used.
I am gonna see what reptiles and larger frogs will eat the flies and or the maggots.
Hope they are OK to feed to the herps?
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a lot of people use regular maggots to feed amphibs although I tend to avoid them myself. When feeding have a pin handy as you will need to pierce the skin of the maggot to make them digestible.
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Rickeezee
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| Pollywog wrote: | | a lot of people use regular maggots to feed amphibs although I tend to avoid them myself. When feeding have a pin handy as you will need to pierce the skin of the maggot to make them digestible. |
What about the flies for larger amphibs? Any good?
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Rickeezee
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Thats ok THEN CAUSE i DIDNT WANT TO HAVE WASTED TWO QUID 
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too right rick.. 
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Rickeezee
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| Stuart wrote: | | too right rick.. |
heehhehe, just gotta find out what sort of fly turns up from them now hehehehe forgot to ask blokey in tackle shop!
He said in gruff tones when I enquired about undyed maggots, you mean whites I looked all knowing and said but of course my good man! Can I have about 50 wowoowwhahahahhahahaha.
He offered me a pint , I thought that's nice of him, I only thought Ireland served beer in its shops out in the sticks. He got a pint glass and dipped it in this big tray of wiggly white maggots
I thought I am not drinking out of that!
Funny each hobby has its own unique jargon / lingo!
So I bid him farewell and told him I liked the look of his pinkies!
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 they should produce blue bottles |
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