Fruit Fly Culture Kit – Drosophila hydei
They’re small, annoying, and usually stowaway on a piece of fruit you bought at the store. What are we talking about? Fruit flies! However, despite being so annoying to us humans, they can be a staple diet to many small critters. Our fruit fly culture kits will feed many hungry little creatures if you breed and take care of Poison Dart frogs, Mantellas, or tiny chameleons like Pygmy Chameleons.
Our fruit fly culture kit is like the gift that keeps giving because each culture will continue to produce new flies for up to five weeks.
Each culture is shipped with two vials of approximately 20 to 40 adult flies each so you can start feeding your hungry critter immediately. The fruit fly includes six complete culture jars and two cultures of adult fruit flies with care instructions. The Culture Kit can produce up to 10,000 flies!
The Advantages of Flightless Fruit Flies
Expressbugs.com fruit fly hydei are entirely flightless, which means they will not swarm around your home if a few flies escape your pet’s enclosure. To feed your pet, take the top off the culture vial, shake a few flies out, and watch your pet start scooping them up. The fruit flies in the fruit fly culture kit vials are Drosophila hydei, generally known as the common fruit fly or vinegar fly. Larger than Drosophila Melanogaster, Drosophila hydei is ideally suited to small to medium-sized reptiles, amphibians, and aquatic pets.
As you can see from the image above, Drosophila hydei is larger than the more commonly available Drosophila melanogaster. Because Drosophila hydei are larger, they make a better choice for bigger frogs and some small reptiles.Caring for your Fruit Fly Culture Kit
You will be happy to know that the fruit fly culture kit requires little to no maintenance. The vials foam “lid” is specially designed to allow air to flow inside while keeping the fruit flies trapped inside the vial. As stated above, the fruit fly vials will continue to produce new flies for up to 5 weeks. However, please keep a few things in mind regarding temperature. If the temperature is too high where you are storing your fruit flies, bad things can happen.
Under hot and stuffy conditions, bacteria will start to grow, which can cause the entire fruit fly culture to collapse rapidly. On the other hand, if the fruit flies are kept under colder conditions, their production will slow down dramatically. Aim for room temperatures between 68°F to 78°F to ensure maximum culture health and longevity.
Fruit Fly Nutritional Values
Protein: 19.7%
Fat: 13.8%
Ash: 1.7%
Moisture: 59.6%
Other: 5.2%
Dart Frogs and Mantellas, as seen above, LOVE to consume large quantities of fruit flies. If you keep multiple frogs in the same enclosure, the Hydei Fruit Fly Culture Kit will quickly pay for itself.| Weight | .5 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 1 × 1 × 1 in |
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