How to culture flightless fruit flies as food!

Flightless fruit flies are a great food for dart frogs, fish and many other animals in the animal keeping hobby! I show you how to culture fruit flies.
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[zestmaster]

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.

[JUSTDOIT]

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

[Bunny-nsni]

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.

[HarveyLenn]

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!

[SupremeGecko]

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

[michaelmelo]

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

[christinwolf]

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

[AlfonseGambino]

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

[AriaMehr]

hello mate thanks for information, how man times do u fed flys cultur ? u make new and move old culture to it ?

[mybuckhead]

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

[CaptObv]

Thanks! Great explanation, new to culturing fruit flies.

[videosbycherylo]

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

[bhowdy]

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

[divinelovebath]

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

[lostpuppy]

5:06 First thing I see after searching fruit fly melonogaster is 2 flies doing doggy, so that makes sense

[davidcanestrare]

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

[TvPizzaz]

Hello Mike ! Wouldn't there be an easier way to raise these fruit flies? I mean like a colony like they do with ants? One place to insert the food, another to collect the flies? No need to use and prepare so many cups every week.

[sofianicolescu]

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

[tonysprimitiveanimals]

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. 👍👍

[lvngoku]

what shelfs are those? i need some like that