How to Prevent Poor Production in Your Fruit Fly Cultures

"Hi my name is Richard Revis I'm co-owner of Black Jungle Terrarium Supply and today on behalf of expertvillage.com we are discussing the proper culturing of fruit flies. One of the last things that can cause problems in producing fruit flies is just simple poor production or low numbers of flies being produce. There is a variety of number of reasons that cause this one of which is using the improper number of flies to start cultures. Often times people aren't aware of how many cultures or how many flies should be used to start a new culture. Here you can see in a culture that has been resentfully set up. There are approximately 75-100 or so fruit flies in a new culture. If you use far fewer then this topically it takes the culture many weeks longer to get started if it even does. Often times there is not enough larvae in the media to actually turn it up and can further cause problems with poor production. Another problem can be cause by a using to old of a fly. If the flies are to old you are not going to get the life spend that you need out of them to continue egg production in therefore produce healthy cultures. Additionally one factor that is true for the hydei more so then the melanogaster is that the hydei species all of the female hatch first. So if you start your culture as you see that initial bloom topically your production is going to be much lower because there is not a even ratio of sexes available. By waiting about a week to ten days after the hydei cultures are producing you can verily eliminate any sort of poor production problem from happening. The last factor and probably one of the most important as far as poor production goes is the choice of culture media. Homemade formulas topically the most nitrous for this and they simply lack the proper level of proteins and sugar in order to assure a good successful hatch. By using a commercial product you are much better off by using fewer flies to actually produce the same number of breeders and your overall production rate is much much higher."