Fruit Flies

[Slayer]

I understand these frogs eat fruit flies. And I see where you can buy cultures of the FF and hatch them out. I think. Is that the deal? once you get these hatched how do you keep the breeding of FF at a constant for regular feeding. I guess what I am asking is DO people keep buying cultures or do they raise their own? Just starting from one culture? What are the conditions for Good FF breeding and keeping a good supply?

[Marty]

There are people that do both. If you have a bunch of frogs buying flies all the time will break your budget. What most do (including myself), you buy a starter culture, then you breed them yourself. When I have more time, I'll write a how-to on breeding flies. I've been doing it for years and I get massive numbers produced. It's cheap and effective

[Slayer]

Thank you. This is what I really wanted to hear. It would seem a little expensive
and inconvenant to have to keep ordering them. I have no PDF's as of yet. But just trying to get the info needed for their keeping.
Thanks again

[Fei Miao]

I don't think we can get fruit flies in my region(S.E. Asia), just curious.. how do you feed them to the frogs without having any escape?

[Marty]

These are flightless fruit flies, genetically modified. Either have no wings or can't use the wings that they have.

[Rainfrog]

Also a good practice is to have up to 10 cultures going at a time. you dont want to have a food shortage. I know some people start about 7 cultures every week or so to insure a constant flow of food. It is not so hard with other critters couse you usualy only have to feed every couple of days and you can change it up but PDFs its all about flies, and the ocasional spingtail snack if you like.

[Slayer]

I see, I see. I read some other things on breeding them since my 1st post.
I understand apple sauce and oat meal etc. mix. What do you do put the eggs in the mix and keep at temp. Then maggots turn into fly.
I will need more info before I try it though