Flightless Fruitflies 101: How to Raise and Culture 

I've watched a lot of videos on this topic and yours is far and away the best, the most comprehensive and thorough. Kudos.

Just got my first culture from Sans Vertigo in the mail and am going to follow this guide to keep the food up to my growing collection of jumping spiders. Great video!

Just going to start my first culture.. This is so great the containers and tips to use. My recipe is a bit different but I like your set up very much! Thanks for your time and knowledge

Thanks, I’m spending a small fortune in buying fruit flies to feed 20 baby frogs ( from tadpoles) and a newly hatched Carolina anole. I’ve got 6 store bought containers… and still have days where I don’t have anything to feed the babies. I’m going groc shopping tomorrow to start cultures, have fruit flies coming from a Bio lab/store tomorrow.

Thank you so much for the video, the calendar explanation answered all of my questions.

Very helpful. Rather than recycle or bin an old culture I use them to breed springtails for my pdf’s works a treat

Excellent video! Very detailed and scientific. I think I actually understand the process now. (subscribed)

Gonna give this a go to feed my mantis nymphs. Thank you for the very good informational video!

Very interesting and informative video! I learned so much about keeping these feeders, thank you!! 😊

This was very informative! Sadly can't buy any colonies here in my country, but with your video and other tutorials on how to make some from the wild, I feel like I can do this now. 😊

I’m about to get a culture for breeding baby jumping spiders. Excited:D

Thanks to this video, I immediately ordered supplies to start a new culture after buying a culture of D. hydei last weekend. They arrived today and I set up my next culture so I can keep my tarantula slings fed! Thank you!

very in-depth & helpful

Wow so well explained. Ordered fruit flies from your site few days ago. Need those starter cultures!

thanks for perspective from oz...we cant wait till our flies get here :-)

thanks for sharing in a very pleasing way.

Thanks for the wonderful video! I'm culturing fruit flies to feed to my ant colonies. Ant larva LOVE them!

Awesome video - thanks for making this!

better to opt for fabric lids instead of holes. Holes sometimes allow larvae to get out, and mites to get in

Very informative video, I've been having issues with having to buy a new culture every month for my two dozen+ tarantula slings. Hopefully I can make this work out for myself.

Try blending the oats until powder, same for mashed potato flakes.. smooth media works better

Excellent video!

I've followed these steps and my cultures are molding and i added a lot of air ventilation. Any ideas?

Helpful video. Thank yoy

That tiny mantis was getting his Kung fu ready, lol.

Why did you switch from brewer's yeast to bananas?

I have 4 tiny english jumping spiders that i feed wild regular flying fruit flies that i caught myself from my kitchen in summer after i left my back door open. I have closed system i made of transfering them from an old culture to a new one via a bottle, anyway. The first time was the worst. I heard about putting them in the fridge for a while. Two mins it said or theyd die. It took mine an hour to fall asleep, and then i forgot about them for 4 hours. But dont worry, they were fine, as soon as i tipped quite a few in my hand to see if they were really dead, they almost instantly warmed up and half my culture flew off. Disaster. Hence why i made closed system to transfer them. Suffice to say. Our fruit flies can handle fridges for more than two minutes. Also whats this food stuff? I just slice some apples, throw in a few drops of apple cider vinegar and then a teaspoon of thick whipped double cream or the cream off a store bought trifle, and they thrive. Like i said i caught mine wild. I got them in july of this year, and have only had to transfer them once in that time until yesterday when i decided to do it again. But yeah man, they love apples n cream man. And banana. Hardy little fekkers. And my wee 5ml spids that i decided to keep to try and combat my arachnaphobia love them.

Thank you for the medium recipe. I tried this just using banana and it went mouldy within a week :(

Do fruit flies, exist in fruits, or other food we buy from grocery stores. I found where my fruit fly problem-a house keeper had put a small bag of potatoes in pantry w things in front of them. The had rotted to just rotten watery spoiled mess. Ugg, smh, I don’t put any potatoes in the pantry! I think I’ve killed the majority of them after $20 spray-that u had to spray flies directly. I have finally made a do it yourself seems to be working well! Fruit Flies be gone 🙏🤷🏻‍♀️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏!!!!

I dumped about 200 into my bioactive anole tank. I figured my anoles( adults would eat some) I found a baby and ordered them for her and she is in her own bioactive. I keep fruit and a wet bug chow they love in both tanks for them to eat. I am assuming they are laying in the soil/banana pieces/bug chow. I just wonder if they will keep reproducing in the tanks.

hi! amazing video, thankyou! I was wondering if I can use nutritional yeast instead of brewersyeast. I don't know yet if/where I can buy it in my area and I already have nutritional yeast.

A culture of mine is doing something I wasn't expecting. The flies seem lethargic. I am feeding them to praying mantids and a surprising number of mantids are dying. Could the 2 problems be related?

Shredded paper is not good for climbing at all, wood stripes works best. Paper will absorb too much moisture and break down after few days

I'm having no real success, even after trying 3 different media types seen on YT. What always happens is that the flies aren't interested in the media! They just head straight up the sides, to the top of the container. It has an excellent see-through nylon mesh, so the ventilation is not the problem. The flies never hang around down the bottom and roam on the media. Why is this?? ...Many thanks

Mine flies 😂 i have no idea how to get fliles flies e dont have them here

Wow but I got flying fruit flys in my house but still works

Eternal flies...

do i need to use the microwave or can i use the stove top 😭

I had to freeze the flies for about 7 mins to just slow them down

Hi

The kind you don't want to eat? That's not what Klaus Schwab of the world economic forum says. He says you will eat the bugs and own nothing and be happy.