How to raise your own livefood

Live food is the best source of nutrition for finches and seedeaters, fish, frogs and reptiles. In some species such as the waxbills and softbills it is essential in their diet. It needs to be supplied during the breeding season to stimulate breeding as well as being a chief source of food for their young. Starting your pets on a live food diet doesn't have to send you broke.
Editors Note:
I decided to remove some links as I believe the information is out dated and could lead to problems with your birds. We will be looking for better information and will replace the links at that time.  

Crickets

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A good source of protein . Click the "Details" buttons for detailed instructions on how to raise them.

Fruit Flies

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Here are a couple of Fruit Fly sites. The first shows you how to establish a colony, the second is an article on preparing food for a Fruit Fly culture. The third is a site with great step by step video clips.

Gentles

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Maggots, or the more polite title Gentles, are not new to Finch breeders. Many breeders have used them as a live food source for decades and list article is from the Hawkesbury Finch Club The second link is to an article written by Marcus Pollard.

Inside a fly breeding box

Grasshoppers

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Both locust and grass-hoppers are used by aussie aviculturists

Mealworms

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Mealworms are the larvae of the beetle. For detailed instructions on how to raise them, click the "Details" button.

Moths/Flying Insects

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Coming Soon

White Worms

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Buy these from the Aquarium shop. click the button for information on how to culture them

Cockroaches

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Coming Soon
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