How to Culture Flightless Fruit Flies - It's Easier Than You Think!
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Hello everyone!
Today's video will be a guide to culturing your own flightless fruit flies.
Breeding them yourself isn't nearly as difficult and tedious as many people think and they make for amazing feeder insects for dart frogs and many other small animals.
I'll also share some thoughts and general tips and tricks on how to be successful with your fruit fly cultures in the long run.
The original source for the fruit fly media recipe I use:
pilgift.se/viewtopic.php?f=13...
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0:00 Intro
1:07 Making a new fruit fly culture
4:25 Different types of fruit flies
5:37 My most important piece of advice
6:54 How often do you have to make new cultures?
7:29 How many cultures do you have to make?
8:33 Outro
Music:
Lakey Inspired - This Feeling
Lakey Inspired - Distant
Lakey Inspired - Days Like These 
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The only thing I forgot to mention in this video is that the fruit flies I breed are all flightless fruit flies. By now I've bred them for so long that I've almost forgotten there are fruit flies that can fly too.
If you’re short on time, you could always do a montage of all your frogs feeding and hanging out. It’s soothing to watch.
Great video as always!
Great instruction video. Some videos scare off new keepers but I think this will be great for people!
Great vid as always! I have stoped using dry yeast in my cultures. In my experience it works just as well without it. And the risk of smelly cultures is less.🙂👍
I’ve forgotten it a few times and those cultures always became really miserable. Either the flies just wouldn’t reproduce or the consistency of the media would be horrible.
Thanks bro.
Love from Stockholm
The boiled water also helps kill mites :)
I like your recipe. Simple. Though I think there isn't any alternative fruit porridge brand recommendation in the description. Any suggestion? Thanks!!
I actually forgot to add that, thank you for the reminder! It’s a big weird for me to recommend brands I’ve never tried, but NEHerp and Repashy have their own medias with good reputation, and most online dart frog stores (FrogDaddy, Houston Frogs etc.) seem to have their own too.
I read online that you can mash banana and sugar together, then add oats and yeast.
Where did you get your melanogasters? I can only find hydei on herpers choice
I got them from a friend of mine here in Gothenburg. He goes by the name "tropfrog" on the forums and all of his cultures are completely mite free, which I don't know any other sellers who can say (my flies that I bought from him have actually stayed mite free for almost four years by now, which is pretty dumb luck since I don't do anything to protect them).
Normally I'd recommend writing on the forums asking if there are any private dart frog keepers in your area, but I assume you're the guy who recently did that on pilgift.se. Many dart frog keepers, like myself, don't actively culture extra fruit flies to sell all the time, but wouldn't have any issue making an extra culture for a symbolic prize if anyone is looking for one. I'm surprised nobody has reached out.
@@Tropical_Tutorials Haha, yes that would be me!
But maybe I'm getting way ahead of myself. I haven't even put any substrate in the vivarium yet
Good thing is that you can make a few cultures without flies and just freeze them, then just when you need them you just take prepared culture and add flies without the "cooking".
Thank you for the recommendation! Never thought about that. It might not work for me considering the yeast in the media, but I might try it.
@@Tropical_Tutorials you can freeze yeast as well. It is useful to make a batches;)