I'm breeding dart frog food, fruit flys

[Spectabilis73]

Hey,
I just started a few fruit fly cultures, drosophila hydeii, for my dart frogs... i am experiencing with diff medias, im not sure if they will work out... one of them is:

bananas
apples
oatmeal
brewers yeast

I'll let you know how it goes...
any suggestions?
-Spec

 

[wickedthistle]

I have some short-winged flies for my fish and cps. Try:

Instant potato mix with a pinch of sugar and a few grains of baker's yeast mixed in. (Add water of course).

Gerber's single grain rice baby food. It's in a yellowish box found in the baby isles at the store. Also add sugar, and a few grains of yeast, and water.

For both of these you can add a bit of vinegar to slow mold. After I transfer newly hatched flies to a new container to lay larvae it's about two weeks and this stuff starts to mold. Since I use plastic water bottle containers, it's just easier for me to throw them away than to use stinky vinegar!

 

[drunknmunky]

i use red wine with mashed banannas mixed in. works great and is slow to mold over =)

Plus it give me an excuse to buy more wine!

 

[Spectabilis73]

It was a success!

WOOHOO! 50 flies on my first day

i started 3 more cultures, and from now on i will start a culture every other day

 

[joseph]

Spec, untill the end of Feb Ed's fly meat is having a 25% off sale on pre made medium with mold inhibitor.

joe

 

[Spectabilis73]

Quote[/b] (joseph @ Feb. 17 2004,01:37)]Spec, untill the end of Feb Ed's fly meat is having a 25% off sale on pre made medium with mold inhibitor.

joe

I know one thing: I'M STOCKING UP!!!

 

[joseph]

8 lbs myself. That should keep for a while.

 

[larry]

spec, you gonna be up to your neck in flies at the rate of a new culture every other day

 

[Spectabilis73]

hmm, i think ill hold off on the media from eds... 1 dollar a culture! my home made ones were 18 cents a culture

yes larry, thats my plan

i will take over the world with my army of flies!!!! muahahahaha, MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol, seriously though, alot will be for my plants and fish