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Product Description
Drosophila melanogaster or Drosophila hydei?
Fresh or Producing?
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| Producing Drosophila Melanogaster Fruit Fly Culture | Producing Drosophila Hydei Fruit Fly Culture | Fresh Drosophila Melanogaster Fruit Fly Culture | Fresh Drosophila Hydei Fruit Fly Culture | |
| Age | 11-15 days | 21-23 days | 2-6 days | 2-6 days |
| Size | 1/16" (smaller) | 1/8" (larger) | 1/16" (smaller) | 1/8" (larger) |
| Wingless | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Flightless | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Production Cycle | Consistent | 2-3 Booms | Consistent | 2-3 Booms |
| When to Feed Out | Within 3 days of arrival | Within 3 days of arrival | 10-12 days after arrival | 15-17 days after arrival |
Using the Culture
How to Feed Flies:
Tap the top of the container so that the Fruit Flies will fall to the bottom. Then remove the lid, and shake the Fruit Flies into the feeding container. Don't forget to dust fruit flies with a quality calcium and multivitamin supplement to ensure optimal nutrition for your pets!
How to Feed Larvae:
High in fat, fruit fly larvae are a great emergency feeder.
Getting the fruit fly larvae is super easy. Grab a spoon and scoop the top of the media in the culture making sure to also scrape the sides a bit. When you pull out the spoon you should see small white larvae scooting around in the media.
This media spoon can be held out for frogs to feed from.
How to Store:
For optimal production, Josh's Frogs Fruit Fly Cultures should be kept at 75-78F and 60-80%. When Hydei are kept at too warm of a temperature, their offspring can mutate and regain the ability to fly.
Lifespan
- If kept properly, these cultures will produce for at least 2 weeks!
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| Customer Rating | (1310) | (305) | (240) | (1057) | (123) | (57) |
| Price | $22.99 | $19.99 | $18.99 | $14.99 | $26.98 | $14.99 |
| Sold By | Josh's Frogs | Josh's Frogs | Josh's Frogs | Josh's Frogs | Josh's Frogs | Josh's Frogs |
Customer Questions & Answers
Customer reviews
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Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2017
Color: ProducingVerified Purchase
Still producing hundreds of flies after a month!
By JimJimmyJimJamJimbo on February 15, 2017
It's been over a month since my flies arrived and the culture is still producing hundreds. I popped a pencil sized hole in the top that I keep closed with tape. When I feed my mantis nymphs, I just pull off the tape, tilt the container, and tap gently. Like seasoning, except it crawls.
By JimJimmyJimJamJimbo on February 15, 2017
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Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2018
Color: ProducingVerified Purchase
Josh's is Great, This product is NOT!
By Robert Bakal on June 7, 2018
Josh's is one of, if not my favorite supplier. I buy a lot from them from animals and plants to a lot of supplies and feeder insects. I have to say though the fruit fly cultures are terrible. I have ordered them several times. I think I got "acceptable" cultures twice. Every other time the containers have arrived in terrible condition. The soupy media has obviously rolled around the containers and coated any pupae completely. The air holes at the top of have media coming through them and there are maggots that have come through the holes and are crawling on the top of the container. The excelsior is completely saturated with media and there are no live flies to be seen in the container so I can't even seed fresh media. There are a few maggots I can see crawling around in the very liquidy media but rarely do these do anything. I wish I could write something better here but its been a disaster buying these and a big waste of money. Until they work out a more stable and dependable shipping method I would rather buy small cultures and seed my own media or in an emergency buy try to buy from someone else.
By Robert Bakal on June 7, 2018
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Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2019
<<Josh's is one of, if not my favorite supplier. I buy a lot from them from animals and plants to a lot of supplies and feeder insects. I have to say though the fruit fly cultures are terrible. I have ordered them several times. I think I got "acceptable" cultures twice. Every other time the containers have arrived in terrible condition. The soupy media has obviously rolled around the containers and coated any pupae completely. The air holes at the top of have media coming through them and there are maggots that have come through the holes and are crawling on the top of the container. The excelsior is completely saturated with media and there are no live flies to be seen in the container so I can't even seed fresh media. There are a few maggots I can see crawling around in the very liquidy media but rarely do these do anything. I wish I could write something better here but its been a disaster buying these and a big waste of money. Until they work out a more stable and dependable shipping method I would rather buy small cultures and seed my own media or in an emergency buy try to buy from someone else.>>
Prior to leaving this 1 star review I contacted Josh's Frogs three times. The last email response has made me decided to NEVER purchase anything from Josh's Frogs again. Years of doing business with them and the response was basically "too bad, looks ok to me". Good business would have been to just send a new culture. There is not ONE FF in this, the larvae are covered in medium, after having it for 24 hours it is turning black. I want a refund!
*** Josh's Frogs made good on this item so I am updating them to 3 stars. I appreciate them making good on a bad delivery but as a customer I should not have to send numerous emails and photo's to have it corrected. The original culture was thrown away. The new culture that arrived was perfect.
Color: ProducingVerified Purchase
NEVER AGAIN WILL I PURCHASE A JOSH'S FROG PRODUCT! UPDATED
By InkPonyArt MADE IN THE U.S.A on October 4, 2019
I decided to copy and paste a previous buyers response because it is EXACTLY what I was going to write. I have purchased Dart Frogs, Mourning Gecko's, plants, culture supplies, crickets, FFC, Butter Worms, Vivarium supplies, etc. Never again will they get any of my money.By InkPonyArt MADE IN THE U.S.A on October 4, 2019
<<Josh's is one of, if not my favorite supplier. I buy a lot from them from animals and plants to a lot of supplies and feeder insects. I have to say though the fruit fly cultures are terrible. I have ordered them several times. I think I got "acceptable" cultures twice. Every other time the containers have arrived in terrible condition. The soupy media has obviously rolled around the containers and coated any pupae completely. The air holes at the top of have media coming through them and there are maggots that have come through the holes and are crawling on the top of the container. The excelsior is completely saturated with media and there are no live flies to be seen in the container so I can't even seed fresh media. There are a few maggots I can see crawling around in the very liquidy media but rarely do these do anything. I wish I could write something better here but its been a disaster buying these and a big waste of money. Until they work out a more stable and dependable shipping method I would rather buy small cultures and seed my own media or in an emergency buy try to buy from someone else.>>
Prior to leaving this 1 star review I contacted Josh's Frogs three times. The last email response has made me decided to NEVER purchase anything from Josh's Frogs again. Years of doing business with them and the response was basically "too bad, looks ok to me". Good business would have been to just send a new culture. There is not ONE FF in this, the larvae are covered in medium, after having it for 24 hours it is turning black. I want a refund!
*** Josh's Frogs made good on this item so I am updating them to 3 stars. I appreciate them making good on a bad delivery but as a customer I should not have to send numerous emails and photo's to have it corrected. The original culture was thrown away. The new culture that arrived was perfect.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2020
Color: ProducingVerified Purchase
Fruit fly soup
By Pamela on October 15, 2020
The flies came in mixed up and dead. called customer service. Two different customer service girls and they behaved as if i were annoying them, barely answered a question and overall unpleasant. Ive ordered from Josh's in the past through their website and Amazon. No more. customer service is as important as the product. since both have failed they've lost me.
By Pamela on October 15, 2020
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Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2018
Color: ProducingVerified Purchase
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2018
Color: ProducingVerified Purchase
