So for those of you who need a translation to understand my Kiwi accent… here’s what I just said in the video:
“Hi, I’m Andrej Brummer, the saltwater scientist, and welcome to SaltwaterAquariumAdvice.com.
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Okay, We are all in school again and I am going to condescendingly ask you some questions. What is deposited under a chicken coop kids? What can we do with what is deposited under chicken coops?
Well, Kids, beneath chicken coops are chicken poops (Sorry). Chicken manure is great feeding to a variety of invertebrates from composting worms to Soldier Fly Larvae. The former needs for the manure to be aged and the latter will lay their eggs in the fresh stuff. The Black Solider Fly Larvae will eat the manure fresh and they will do a great job of eating it all. Those grubs, which we trademarked under the name Soldier Grubs, are great for reptiles, fish and chickens. You can make chicken food out of chicken poop. How great is that?
Anyway, in order to gather chicken poop for your worms, or for composting, you need to have the chickens pretty much confined to one area. Free range is great, but free range in a cage, where animals can’t kill your chickens, and so you can get the poop is even better.
If you’re reading this, you probably already are very aware of the benefits of owning and maintaining your own chickens. You’ve probably already known that the average chicken lays over 260 eggs a year, and that can lead to over FIVE THOUSAND eggs for your family per year.
You already know the positives. Knowing all that, maybe what has stopped you in the past was worrying about the cost of buying a chicken coop, or the complication of how to build a chicken coop, such as coop materials, insulation, lighting, ventilation, nesting boxes, perches and predators protection and perhaps the upkeep for the chickens themselves.
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I wrote a post about Tenebrio Obscurus a while back. You can find that post here. The gist of the post was that mini mealworms were named incorrectly and I cited sources. The common name for Obscurus is “Dark Mealworm. Dark Mealworms, it turns out, have never been sold in mass volumes. It is not even being grown by growers as feeders or in any fashion it seems.
Dark Mealworms are the larvae of the adult Tenebrio Obscurus. Until recently, Buffalo Worms were mistakenly being sold as Tenebrio Obscurus, when they are actually Alphitobius diaperinus. Diaberinus is indeed a mini mealworm while Obscurus is a large mealworm. In the video, I place a golden mealworm beetle, Tenebrio Molitor, next to a Tenebrio obscurus beetle and you can see that Tenebrio obscurus, or the Dark Mealworm is a larger beetle.
I also place a large mealworm next to a Dark Mealworm and you can see that the largest large common mealworm is smaller than the Dark Mealworm larvae. The difference being that the Dark Mealworm is darker in color and has an exoskeleton that is more like that of Superworms, Zophobas morio.
Please see the pictures and watch the video below and comment.
This is very interesting. We have heard recently that Mealworms eat plastic and Waxworms eat Styrofoam, but now the Roly Poly might actually be helping us by removing heavy metals from the soil. Get some Isopods and save the Earth. This give an entirely new meaning to the term “clean-up crew” when applied to Isopods in terrariums.
We will have Armadillidium Vulgare, which is the species that this story is about, when the weather warms up again. We have some beautiful morphs. Check out the pics below. The story is below also.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2017/06/study-finds-rolly-pollies-remove-heavy-metals-from-soil.html
We have about 40 different species of Isopods here. Trust me, that is a lot of isopods. I made a video of three species of Spanish Isopods a few days ago. That one covered Hoffmanseggi, Magnificus and Porcellio Ornatus “Dark South”. That post is here.
This video covers 13 different isopods. Those are:
I will link to care information for each one as soon as I get the chance. I will just post brief care info now and then do more later. I hope that you enjoy the video. The text in the video is hard to see which is why I am duplicating that here.Thank you for stopping in.
Ken
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We are happy to announce three new additions to our isopod collection. We recently acquired groups of Porcellio Magnificus, Porcellio Hoffmanseggi and Porcellio Ornatus “Dark South”.
All three Porcellio species are from Spain and prefer enclosures with airflow and kept on the drier side. We have tried to mimic the dry Spanish forest floor in order to keep them happy. The addition of Rosemary leaves seems to have perked them up a bit and they love goldfish flakes and Alfalfa grass. We also keep them on a continuous diet of Pecan and Sugar Maple leaves.
Okay, we have taken another turn to the dark side here by talking about how to get rid of insects instead of how to culture them. Silverfish are related to a great insect that we raise here on our farm called Firebrats. Firebrats are a great feeder for mantids, spiders and a host of reptiles and amphibians. Although Firebrats and Silverfish look the same, they are not the same. Firebrats are bigger, love the heat and are not fond of the same type of cool, damp, musty spots that Silverfish love.
If you must get rid of insects, you may as well do it right so here is a guide that will take you through ridding yourself of Silverfish once and for all. Sure.. squishing them might make you feel like you’re making a difference, but it just doesn’t solve the problem. They’ll keep coming back again and again and again. So take the next 5 minutes to read over this page and you will learn exactly what you need to know to get rid of silverfish…
The fact that you’ve arrived at this website should be evidence enough that you want to get rid of your silverfish infestation. But like most people, you may not think silverfish are anything more than a “nuisance pest.”
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Imagine that you are sitting on your deck enjoying the sun on a summer afternoon. You can see the red and green of your tomato plants in your garden.
You can smell the perfume of your flowers in the flower beds just off the deck. And you can hear the buzzing and humming of the honeybees in your garden beehive.
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We are glad you are here. It gets lonely just talking to worms, crickets and fruit flies all day. Please engage with me, ask me a question or post a comment. Check out our forum and our directory. If you need worms, roaches or any type of feeder insects, please try Wormman.com
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