How to culture flightless fruit flies as food! 

Tip: when you buy mels try to get wingless ones, not the flightless ones. From experience the flightless ones tend to regain their flight ability after a couple of generations while the wingless ones won't.

I don't even need to make fruit fly cultures but I still watched the video! It was very interesting to watch!

I feed these to my baby jumping spider! But my last culture died bc I didn't know how to take care of them 😅 Thank you for this video!

Perfect timing. Had to make a couple of cultures tonight. Thanks for the video Mike.

So glad I found your channel! I'm new in the hobby and this was easy to understand and worked great for me.

Another good video Mike, I use Repashy when I'm in a rush, but I make your fruit fly media that I saw in one of your previous videos and it's awesome the initial cost is a bit more because of what I paid for the beet powder and spirulina powder but it produces prolific cultures and I never get mold. Keep up the good work

It's funny that this video was posted three years ago. At that time, three years ago, I got my first fruit fly colony, Drosophila melanogaster "wingless". Today, I still have it going. I never added any new blood, and just kept breeding the same culture over and over. They've just been rehoused with new media for the millionth time. They've now been turned into a long running experiment to see just how long these populations can survive. So far, nothing has changed in rate of reproduction or fertility, but variation in striping does occur.

Thanks! Great explanation, new to culturing fruit flies.

Very well explained .Thanks for taking the time.

Thank you soooo much for doing this video Mike

Excellent video. You explain everything very well!

Best vid I've seen yet on cultures. Good job my friend.

Simple, clear, and informative, thank you!

Great video! I just got a European tree fort and this helped for feeding it

Hey Mike, great video and thank you for the information that you are sharing with everyone that watches you. 🐢🦎🐸🐍🐊👊🏼

This is THE most helpful video on this - thank you!!!

I love your videos!

Great info thanks for sharing.

These are the clips i am subscribed foe

Good videos! Painter's paper is a good replacement for excelsior. Super cheap and it doesn't get everywhere

Love the fittonia jungle in the video thumbnail

Did not know you went to central Michigan pretty cool you went there.

Great video

great video bud cheers :)

I have a ton of jumping spider sling to feed. This was useful

Great videos

Loved the video! Quick and too the point. Great info. I’m gonna try out fruit fly culturing for my aquarium fish, so was doing a little searching to see the process involved. Appreciate the time you took and the ideas. I did miss somewhere I guess, or maybe it didn’t get explained, but where do you put your diatomaceous earth powder? Was it in the culture? I want to use it correctly. I did come across something about a mite paper that can be used, but I already have the diatomaceous earth. Have you any experience with mite paper? Thanks for the links as well 🎉❤

Where do you purchase the vented lids? Thanks for the great video!

Little late but you should make a video on how to supplement or powder your flies for darts! Having trouble finding info on it.

Thinking of making a culture for my quails.

Could you also link a video on how to make your own fruit fly media? Because I can't find any of those products where I live so I want to try to make my own.

Thank you bro. How necessary is the excelsior wood strands.

A silicone cooking spatula would scrape the media down perfectly. They make tiny ones.

‘Diatamatus earth” nite control? And the other cheaper fruitfly food I can’t purchase is us.. do you have a link to provider or the name?

Hey I really like your channel ❤ i have a question i really want to get some dart frogs but I don’t know if the temperature in my apartment is fine for the fruit fly, i keep my apartment during the day at 73 to 75 at 65 at night is that okey for them or its a bad temperature?

I do my cultures using your other receipe. The only thing I do differently is I dust my flies before I seed my new culture. I have 2 green western toads that love them as part of a varied diet. I would not mind using the superfly if they had smaller containers of it. I've never seen a smaller container I don't think.

I always pour the flies into a bigger high edge tub and then pour them in - less fly wastage.

Hi Mike, I have about 8 tarantulas all 1cm slings. How many cultures would I need for them thanks. I subscribed btw.

Nice. My son and I want to culture some for our baby lizard. 🦎🍃

I just received small anoles and thinking about culturing flies. This is because my colony of meal worms only contain large ones. What do you recommend fruit flies, or bean beetles?

any other ideas to get smaller insect type food quick? I have a cave orb weaver in a container I got in fall and it's now almost Xmas and I'm guessing it gonna want to eat eventually ... I have a few rollie pollies and it had one a few weeks ago but now that its winter these rollie pollies are not active and just hide in the dirt. I know when spring comes by eventually ill get some flys from outside screens but I'm a few months away from that. I'm guessing it will want to eat before that ... ya, I have no clue what I'm doing with him, just feeling my way thru it but if it does die no biggie, it's only a local orb weaver. if it was still outside I'm guessing the winter would have killed it already. I don't have other spiders or frogs or lizards or anything so I don't have any reason to keep live food on hand, I kinda was hoping my small family of rollie pollies would hold it over till spring but they just hide in dirt constantly. (I'm guessing they know its winter too) ... my cave orb weaver is like quarter inch or so? from the little I read on wiki about them I'm not expecting it to get much bigger than that. I guess they only live like 18 months so I'm not sure how much more time it even has. I kept it for the hell of it.

I'm new to this, its the first video I've watched, how do you know when the culture has run its course

Hi Mike. I have a question. Do Pangea and Rephasy include D3 vitamin? Thanks for answer. Have a nice day. :)

Super informative!!! I’m using the fruit flies to feed my baby jumping spiders and now after watching your video- I am confident that I can culture my own fruit flies 🪰- thanks so much

Great vid👍but why do you need the coffee filters aswell ?🤔

Man that’s crazy how it works. But I’m not a fan of frogs or fruit flies. But awesome video and very good tips for who ever dose. 👍👍

How do u fruit fly proof your exo-terra tanks?

Few questions, first off do you find the coffee filters get matted down and ais there a way to prevent this? I have been using them for some cultures and it has clumped up from the maggots killing the culture. second question is what kind of diatomaceous earth do you use?

Do you have to use the excelsior if your using coffee filters?'

Noice Mike!!

I have 1 baby tree frog (wild species from WV/Eastern USA)...basically he is what I call a rescue. My daughter raised tadpoles over summer on the front porch and they all morphed and left of their own free will whenever they felt like it but this one last little guy just wouldn't leave. It started to get down near freezing and bugs were getting scarce and even after I drained the tank he still wouldn't leave so I got scared he was gonna die of starvation or freeze to death so we have a baby frog, at least for winter - we'll see how things are going come spring 😁. Anyway, I am totally new to all of this and have no clue what I am doing. Everything I know I've picked up from YT. I've been buying melanogaster from PetCo but they're getting expensive so I'm trying to start my own cultures. My problem is I have NO CLUE how many or how often he needs to eat, I've heard all kinds of different answers. Any help? He is very tiny, like tip of your pinky tiny. How many melanogaster should I feed him and is that daily, every other day, weekly? Hard to make the cultures when I don't even know how many I need. Whatever your answer is if you can expand on how many flies I should add to a new culture and how often I should make new ones that would be great! Thanks so much! Oh, also, do you dust the flies before you add them to the culture or immediately before feeding the frog? Does he need calcium+D3 AnD a multivitamin powder? I ordered both from Amazon but I can send them back if I got the wrong thing. OK, just 1 more question...can I sit the cultures on an under tank heating mat to keep them warmer? We keep our house COLD (for a frog apparently), usually around 63-65 F. He's so small he's in a beta tank and I put him in a sandwich container to feed him and I've had him sitting on a regular heating pad but I just ordered an actual under tank heat mat. I got a very small one that apparently doesn't get too hot, should just put off enough heat to keep him a couple degrees warmer than the house. Would that work for the flies, too? If not, any suggestions on how to keep them warmer? I have one, uninvited, frog so I don't exactly have a room for him or his food. I know it's a lot but thanks in advance for helping!!!! 😊😊

What other media's have you used? I'm courios to know the price per cultur on other media's I'd love to try some others out

I'm little bit confused, what to do if I just started and want to culture food for my jumping spider but don't have flies already?

what exactly are the coffee filters for??

How much Demetrius earth do you add to the new mix, the new culture?

frogs and chameleons, if kept. How many servings should be given? one day given 3 glasses of fruit flies?

How do you prevent fruit flies from escaping exo terra thanks!

Can the common toad in Central Texas eat cat food without hurting them. They eat with my cats.

You can feed these to mantisis right?

Josh's Frogs have the fruit fly kits.

I buy everything from joshs frogs and dollar tree for my cultures. I also dust new flies before introducing them to the cultures

So how do I get the vented lids?

How many cultures should i need for a single dart? Great video!

I’m hopefully gonna get a fly culture because I’m gonna use them for my ants to eat

You need to get a pair of croc skinks and do a setup vid

And how do y HOW do you apply diamatatious earth to your flies

Ok cool

Also, how do you determine if a culture got mites in it?

I just found a praying mantis and decided I’m gonna keep her I think I will culture fruit flies so I don’t have to buy crickets all the time. Do the flies stink or are noisy or anything?

How do mites appear?

We need be stock in Amazon...

So before you throw out old culture u seed new one????

how do i stop them from rotting?

You do need to buy the first culture right?

Where do you buy bulk vented lids ?

FYI, your teespring link in your description is broken =-)

I’m 2 years late, but I’m confused as to why you’d throw the culture away after a month. If the lifespan of the mites is within that month wouldn’t it better to keep it after that point? Maybe I misunderstood

I just bought a culture from a local pet store......they were labelled "Flightless", but when I opened the lid, a bunch flew out....should I return it? Thanks!

What’s your recipe? Smell of both the repashy and your recipe?

Who has the best media?

Whats the point of the coffee filters? Just to take up space? id think the excelsior would be better all the way around, so they can climb down walk over the fruit substrate, where as the coffee filters, walking down the inner cone wouldnt do them that much justice being the inner funnel wouldnt let them walk across the fruit, they would have to climb back out and walk down the outter cone of the coffee funnel you u made? Love your vids though!!

And when do you need to make a new culture

Why do you use the coffee filters and the excelsior?

Save money and time at less the 1 doller per culture with rapashey makes it one of the cheapest options. 3tbsp rapashy. 4 oz boil water . No stirring needed. Try it out.

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?

Where the heck do you get the cups with the lids

15:04 basically my life

Funny story. I don't need wingless fruit flies. I breed winged ones..... free range. They keep the jumping spiders in my house feed and their cute too :) I have hundreds at any one time. Every now and then I leave some fruit in a cup for them to get their numbers up :)

GO FLAMES !!

I thought you introduced yourself as "Microsoft Reptile" 😂

I feed these to my baby black widows, so this will come in handy

Bruh mad flies on your bed!! Lol

Wow. $65 for plastic cups LOL!! I actually came here for a fly food recipe LOL

This is 2 years old,but thank you bro.

Note to self: 7:35

This stuff is really messy so... imma do it right where I sleep

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? I've prepared the media very carefully, re hyrdration level etc. ...Many thanks

I just wanna keep fruit flies as pets

5.50 I think your fly is broken bro

HOW THE FUCK DID I GET HERE !?!?!?!?!?!