Ok. I made a huge mistake. I bought a fruit fly culture at my LPS. I planned to start a new culture from it, but the culture can't even keep up with my frogs that just morphed. I didn't think it was a huge deal. Just go back to the store and buy another culture, right? Wrong. LPS currently has 10 cultures. Five are completely blown. Maybe 10-30 flies left. Corpses lining the floor. Not pretty. The other five are fresh, but... the media is completely dried out. Cracked. Separated from the jars. No flies coming from there. After explaining to an employ that all of the cultures they had on the shelf were total rubbish, he offers me a 5% discount on them. I explained (again) that none of the cultures were capable of producing a single fly. He then offers me a 10% discount. I remained calm. I wanted to slap some sense into the guy. I told him that I wasn't trying to trick him into giving me a discount. All I wanted was a good culture. I asked when they would receive more. He tells me two weeks! He finally admits that the cultures they have are trash, but says it will still be two weeks. He also tells me that he's going to pull the cultures they have off the shelf. That was two days ago. I send my husband in today as my secret agent. I'm in the store regularly. So I sent him as another potential customer who isn't impressed with their stock. Not only have they not pulled these bad cultures from the shelf, they also tried to convince him that the cultures were ok. When he refused to buy, they offered him a 45% discount. When he refused, they gave him the same story. Two weeks before new arrivals. They won't special order. This is not some mom & pop operation. I won't bash them by name, but this is a national chain! Ridiculous!

Sorry. I'm finished throwing my tantrum. Now for my problem. I need flies! There are so many options out there. I was just wondering if anyone had experience with multiple vendors and could point me in the right direction. I've found places that have extremely reasonable prices on products and shipping, but can find no information on them outside of their websites. Others, I've heard of, but want ~$50 shipping to guarantee live arrival. My babies are starving! Ok. Things aren't so dire yet. But until I can find fruit flies, I'm feeding off practically all of my day old crickets. Which means, a month from now I'll have nothing to feed my adults! So, help will be greatly appreciated! The sooner, the better.