Feeding Frogs Fruit Flies = Frustrating!

[Chelspaz]

What's to say the flies won't climb out of the container while it's in their enclosure also? Flies know how to get around, even if their flightless. I've definitely figured that out! Lol.

I guess I like the small opening kind of ideas for the cultures because I can more easily control how many flies I tap out. If I open the entire lid, I think it'll just be a mess. Even if I tap it, some will stick to the stuff they climb on inside the culture (forgot what it's called) and still make their way quickly to escape.

Fruit flies make me nervous. Lol.

[DigitalPunk]

No I just dump the flies into the Vivarium. They can and will climb out of the tank if it is not FF proof. One thing you can do is set a small container near the tank or even on top of it filled with sugar water. The flies will dive in for a tasty snack and then die

A glass of vinegar works as well, but smells awful.

[awelcome]

In the beginning I was putting them all in and ended up with a good number of escapees from the tank.... either through the mesh or even the edges of the glass door. It was frustrating. Putting glass on top (for humidity reasons) only helped some and I still found them often. This was when I had a pretty bare tank in the beginning and they would scatter in the moss pretty quickly.

Then I redid my tank (to make it more proper for my species no thanks to the pet store) and I ended up with not only leaf litter which allows for a flatter feeding surface, but a large piece of flat wood which is my chosen feeding spot. It works great, and though the flies do scatter some they don't get far before he gets them. In fact not many make it off that log. The ones that do he picks off throughout the day, and I haven't had escapee problems since. I also, once I get them into the cup I will feed from doing the first cup method and then tapping into second cup to leave behind the extra supplement dust, put a lid onto that one and only drop in about a quarter to a third of the flies at once and let him get most of those before I add the next round. It takes longer, but I like to watch him eat anyway, and from start to finish I am always done within 10 minutes.