Feeder Business

I just put up an ad. We shall see what happens.

I wouldn't even think about it while you are a renter, uness you rent a full house with a garage, or a farm with a barn.

That's what I'm planning on doing. I used to have about 10 different types of live food going here for fish, then I slowly stopped using them for my fish, but kept selling them for others. I've since stopped culturing most because I shipped mine out in a box to avoid squishing, while others would ship in envelopes, which, people bought because they could save $1. I still sell the ones that I personally use, I just don't do any extra culturing. Try it that way first, if you find that you want to expand it to breed extra species or start up extra colonies to produce much more than what you use yourself, then go ahead.

It will probably be a while till I get my colony up to the point that I can supply a lot of other people. I only have four breeding females, and four hold back females.

Rats smell worse than you think. I don't notice the smell when I am in the rat room but once I come out all I can smell is rat, it sticks to my clothes. I try to do all my rat room maintenance before my morning shower. Everything in my rat room has a certain odor that will not leave. I have 30 adults and 20-60 young at any one time. I also have a carbon filter that helps keep the smell at bay but it is loosing the battle. I clean my rats every 3 days.

Now asf's are a different story. They have a smell too but not nearly as bad. I can leave my ASF's 5-7 days before they need cleaning.

oh yeah one tip to keep smells down is low humidity. invest in a dehumidifier unless you live somewhere very dry.