Quarentine for Noonies...

[Lady]

I'm with Bruce. I use Repashy's Superfly for my cultures as well. ( an order can be placed directly w/ Repashy)
Tried many brands and recipes; didn't like any as much.

IMO - this is one of those expenses we just can't skimp on ---- don't want to run out of food !
You want to ALWAYS have at lest one full blooming back up....and others in different cultivating stages
Because, if and when they crash ---they crash and then there's none !!!
We need to plan ahead and have a ready made source of FF you can get with in a day or two.
Keep the bag of Repashy in the frig between culture preps.

Practicing is a good idea.

Juvenile leucs will need the smallest Drosophila melanogaster
When they are adults they will enjoy D. Hydei.
However, sticking with just the melanogaster would be fine.

You are absolutely right. Don't ever want to run out of food. Fortunately there is a pet shop that sells live flies if I have a catastrophic event with my cultures. I will look into the Repashy's Superfly right away. If it's the best then I want to try it.

[Lady]

Oh Noooo!!!! I am deathly allergic to something in the Repasy's Superfly mix. I am allergic to Paprika and Tumric. If I get any on me or smell it while it's hot I may end up in the hospital. What will I do?

[Lady]

I may have to use home made culture.

[Lady]

BTW I have the plastic tub for my quarantine. We will mod it and come up with all the things we need for it while we wait for the dresser to set the Viv up on.

[ColleenT]

i think they put that in there to inhibit mold. if you don't use it, ( obviously if you can't) keep an eye on cultures for mold.

[flybyferns]

Oh Noooo!!!! I am deathly allergic to something in the Repasy's Superfly mix. I am allergic to Paprika and Tumric. If I get any on me or smell it while it's hot I may end up in the hospital. What will I do?

Yikes. You might read the ingredients in the NEHerp mix?

[DigitalPunk]

I have a bunch of the NeHerp media at home. I will look at it tomorrow (unless I forget) and let you know the ingredients.

For the lid of your QT Tub a little trick Lynn shared with me. Get an old Fork and heat the tip of it up under a flame. Push the fork through under side of the lid and it will melt nice small little vent holes.

[Lady]

Paprika and Tumric are used lots of the time in human food as a preservative that prevents mold. I have to avoid those foods like the plague. I found a recepie for cultures that involves mashed bananas, apple sauces, Rolled oats, distilled vinegar, water and bakers yeast. This can be made in batches minus yeast and divided into bags to be frozen to save for later. Then defrost and add yeast as needed for use. My hubby and I think this might be the safest thing for us to use. Since it has real fruit in it it has real vitamins. Yes we will watch for mold and mites. If we have to get ones from the pet store only he will handle them for my sake.

We have also figured out how to make vents for the Qaurentine tank and for a isopod farm in a sweater box. We can get springtails for $5 at the pet store and will also try to keep a culture of them alive too. but we really want to avoid the cost of a second isopod culture since those we have to have shipped.

[DigitalPunk]

The thing I do with the Isopods is set them up in a plastic shoe box sized bin and let them breed for several months before I add some of them to the tank. Isopods are slow breeders and could quickly be made extinct in your tank. Iso's are super easy to culture also

This way you will never run out

[Lady]

The thing I do with the Isopods is set them up in a plastic shoe box sized bin and let them breed for several months before I add some of them to the tank. Isopods are slow breeders and could quickly be made extinct in your tank. Iso's are super easy to culture also

This way you will never run out

we got a shoe box sized plastic tub at the same time we got our quarantine tub just for farming Isopods.