Thankyou
by far the best video ive watched. So helpful.

Which animals didyou carefor in the zoo

What about mite's

Sorry for running into this so late!  Rather than write my own DIY of my personal little tips, I have a warning!  Don't get greedy and try to grow a huge amount if fruit flies in one pot. I kept my flies kept in a small, warm pantry (set up basically like Dave does).  They were such a terrific success...until I neglected my most successful pot, (a 16 oz. food container) and as the flies got more and more prolific...Boom! the container couldn't hold anymore, and I when I went into my pantry there were thousands of (thankfully flightless) fruit flies, covering every inch of the room!  What a nightmare, you can only catch so many with the vacuum cleaner and it was weeks before we stopped finding errant flies, even in our kitchen!  So be careful there!  Thanks, Dave and Camera Lady!

Thank you for this video. Really helpful in figuring out how to keep my single little jumping spider boy fed without having to keep buying new flies from the pet shop. Especially since I've had bad luck with some of the shop fly cultures being infested with mould days after buying them, I'd rather do the process myself to know the quality.

Leave some bananas or apples out on the counter, fruit flies will be there in 2 days.

just to say to get the media isnt that cheap by the looks of it its 8.99 euros plus 29.80 euros to ship to the uk.

I assume fruit flies eat fruit...can't that just be put in a plastic container with an inverted lid? Why is this half an hour long and wholly dependent on premade products....YAWN.

My fly cultures that I make up keep going mouldy.. do you know why at all and how I can prevent it. I've used TSS culture mix bag and every pot I've made its gone mouldy 🤦‍♀️😤 I don't know what I'm doing wrong I've gone by the instructions.

I'm going to buy your recommendation and try your method.. hopefully I will have better luck 🤞 x

Good vid Dave, does the pet factory have a UK site? Because when I am searching it's only giving me European ones.

"luckily they bounce well, lucky innit' "... 😂 Dealt with that out take like a pro.
Thanks for the upload to teach us newbies how to do this without killing them off within 24hrs. I have never done that of course, I'm asking for a "friend"... honest 😬

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Another little tip that I found helpful:
I was feeding tiny, 2-4mm “true spiders” over the winter and found that using a small (1-2” opening) bottle made getting them into the small enclosures a lot easier, BUT getting the flies into that small bottle usually made a mess.
I bought a 5-inch plastic radiator funnel from the hardware store. The small end opening is roughly an inch or less. Bigger than a regular funnel, but small enough to fit inside say a repurposed herb/spice shaker bottle. It’s also lightweight and shorter than a standard funnel, so it doesn’t topple the shaker when set in the opening - handsfree.
So I was able to shake the fruit flies into the funnel and right down into the bottle without losing any. And they don’t cling to the plastic like they did to the metal funnel I had been using previously.

I saw the shaker suggestion on someone else’s video and thought it was a good idea, but even cold flies tended to spill out the sides during transfer from a large deli cup. 🤷🏻😊 The funnel made my life a lot easier.

Thank you so much for making these extremely informative videos! I needed a good detailed video for these flies! ❤

Thank you so very much. You are a legend. Excelsior on Amazon, 10 pounds... $36 as packing material and over $310  from Josh's Frogs as fruit fly media. (I'm in the wrong business... Good on you Josh...)

Love the shirt❤

Can you please send me the link for culture please

Great info thanks for sharing.

Thanks for this video dave was looking into doing my own fruit flies for the slings i have got a roach colony going aswell now too 😊

Did you drill the 🔴⭕ holes in the tops of the containers ?  Which exact  kind of sponges are you using, and what size and shape did they start out as ?