fruit flies are good if you can get some wingless or flightless colonies going. I also raise a very small breed of meal worms. The smaller ones are perfect for slings.Pine head crickets is the obvious answer but is there anything else.How about legs from the adult crickets?
Good god almighty, I think I would rather pull out my hair then try fruit flies again. Little "flightless" boogers. They can walk/run faster then they could have ever flown. :wall: For every one that made it into the container and was killed by a T, 30 were running all over my desk.fruit flies are good if you can get some wingless or flightless colonies going. I also raise a very small breed of meal worms. The smaller ones are perfect for slings.
wow where do you get them? pine forest floors? sorry i couldnt resist...Pine head crickets is the obvious answer but is there anything else.How about legs from the adult crickets?
ROTFLOL i bet that was fun !!!!!!!lolGood god almighty, I think I would rather pull out my hair then try fruit flies again. Little "flightless" boogers. They can walk/run faster then they could have ever flown. :wall: For every one that made it into the container and was killed by a T, 30 were running all over my desk.
What technique did you use to transfer the fruit flies?Am I the only one that didn't have problems with fruit flies? I had up to three colonies going at once and had a pretty good hold of being able to put one or two in a jar or vial at any given time.
They were good feeders when I could get them in to the desired containers. I could get them to reproduce easy enough to.Am I the only one that didn't have problems with fruit flies? I had up to three colonies going at once and had a pretty good hold of being able to put one or two in a jar or vial at any given time.
I would just hit the conatiner against the table to knock them all down to the bottom. Then open the vial and shake one or two out. Seemed to work pretty good. You can also anesthetize them with CO2. Put an alka seltzer in a vial with some water and a rubber stopper with some aquarium tubing coming out. the gas escaping is pure CO2 and slows them down a lot.They were good feeders when I could get them in to the desired containers. I could get them to reproduce easy enough to.
How were you transferring them? Do you have a secret? I had to open the stocking top of the jar and they would all rush at me like soccer fans mobbing a field after a home team loss. :8o
Brilliant!I would just hit the conatiner against the table to knock them all down to the bottom. Then open the vial and shake one or two out. Seemed to work pretty good. You can also anesthetize them with CO2. Put an alka seltzer in a vial with some water and a rubber stopper with some aquarium tubing coming out. the gas escaping is pure CO2 and slows them down a lot.
Ahh see now I see my problem. I had my cultures going in small mayo jars. So my time between thumping them down and them climbing out was seconds.I would just hit the conatiner against the table to knock them all down to the bottom. Then open the vial and shake one or two out. Seemed to work pretty good. You can also anesthetize them with CO2. Put an alka seltzer in a vial with some water and a rubber stopper with some aquarium tubing coming out. the gas escaping is pure CO2 and slows them down a lot.