D. hydei Death at 69F!

[Mentat]

That is worth a try Paul; thank you !

[Mentat]

Well, dead flies were stuck on media like dinosaurs in tar ! Ended up preparing two new cultures, in one a "Gold" D. hydei from new stock and in the other, placed around a dozen and a half D. hydei survivors. The black ones are acting all weird so no big hope for them .

Then removed the excelsior and lightly scraped off the dead flies from media in the 3 affected cultures; my guess being, if they laid eggs in there (and hopefully did not scraped all out) will see some maggots soon.

Also noted some D. melanogaster cultures had casualties; but nothing as bad as the D. hydei.

[DigitalPunk]

Ugh that is super frustrating. Hopefully you can salvage everything and get production back up and running.

I am having a fly crisis of sort today myself. I need to make new cultures, but instead I am having to wait for larva to pupate so I can have enough flies to make the 4 cultures I need lol. I also bought some D. Hydie I am waiting to boom so i can make cultures from them. Soooo yeah. I guess I am going to increase my production from here on out to 4 or 5 Melanogaster from now on instead of 3.

I am also working on switching from the deli cups to Glass jars so I can wash them and reuse them. Trying to cut costs down some.