Summer, fruit fly cultures keep crashing.

[deranged chipmunk]

Numerous things can cause a culture to crash. Over population, under population, humidity (and lack thereof), temps, ect. If your room is getting above the 85* mark, I would be more concerned about any frogs in the room more so than a crashed culture. Those temps can be deadly to numerous species.


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[teslas intern]

Hmm, I didn't think about the frogs... I'll have to figure out how hot it actually is, and adjust accordingly. In the mean time I have figured out how to catch and dust wild fruit flies, so my woes are over for the moment. But yeah I'm definitely going to put a thermometer in the room itself, and turn on the AC.

[ColleenT]

i have had bad luck in winter, when the downstairs gets too dry. Humidity is def better, and not too hot. I have used both Josh's frogs mix, and also Repashy Superfly. I think the Superfly might be better in certain situations, but overall they work pretty much the same. I keep Hydei, which are bigger and my Azureus love them.

Someoen told me- always split a culture. When you buy one, mae one and dump a bunch of flies into the new culture, and keep splitting them, this way you save some money. the supplies can be found on Josh's frogs or other frog supply.