One of the most common way to lure those wild birds into a new BH is to introduce ammonia.
Ammonia smell is said to be depicting those smell generated when those bird shits undergo the fermentation process changing from raw bird shits into guano.
The moment you splash a hand full of this white powder, it is immediately evaporate and the smell its produces is unbearable.
I always inform my client to splash those white powder just before you are leaving the BH.
The good thing about using this powder, is that it is very easy to use however there are things that is not good especially when there are too much in the BH. Your nesting planks will turn black. No more red meranti, now it can be called the light black meranti.
How how do you avoid from this phenomena?
You need to control the usage by using smaller dosage every time you visit the BH. Put in about a few kilos, 2 kilos the most.
The only problem is that it will not last long. Just a couple of days the smell are gone.
So how do you make them last longer?
I was given this idea from a good friend who have just started a BH in Trang, Thailand. He is a Malaysian.
The best that he did was to use those bubble air pump that you can buy from any aquarium fish shops.
Get a container with liquid ammonia and you use the speed control air pump to blow the air into the liquid.
The gas that comes out will be with ammonia smell. You now pipe these gas into a small bottle, coca cola bottle filled with some ammonia liquid is fine, and from here you can check the number of bubbles that the pump is pumping. Regulate the speed of the bubbles by controlling the choke on the pipe or the pump speed.
If you wish to introduce the smell only at a specific time of the day then you introduce a digital timer to activate the pump.
Please treat this idea as confidential and no body should knows except me and you. Ssssh.........
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