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How I make fruit fly medium!
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<blockquote data-quote="Azziza22" data-source="post: 350635" data-attributes="member: 13612"><p>It's a mold inhibitor. You want to load it with "good fungus" i.e. yeast so it can outcomepete any potentially bad mold in the air that would cause damage to the culture.</p><p></p><p> I usually buy fleischmann's active dry yeast 4 oz from the grocery store since you don't need very much and keep it in the fridge. In my experience it stays active for over a year in the jar, and it ends up being a lot cheaper than buying the packets and throwing away the majority of one for the culture</p><p></p><p></p><p>Edit: I really have liked the mesh a lot I have gotten mold every single time I've used any medium. I've tried boiling it leaving it dry tried buying from different places, no matter what I always seem to get stinky moldy runny cultures within a few weeks. Since I switched to the mesh I've only had it happen once or twice in the past few years. And it's also pretty compact compared to other mediums since you can fold it up</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azziza22, post: 350635, member: 13612"] It's a mold inhibitor. You want to load it with "good fungus" i.e. yeast so it can outcomepete any potentially bad mold in the air that would cause damage to the culture. I usually buy fleischmann's active dry yeast 4 oz from the grocery store since you don't need very much and keep it in the fridge. In my experience it stays active for over a year in the jar, and it ends up being a lot cheaper than buying the packets and throwing away the majority of one for the culture Edit: I really have liked the mesh a lot I have gotten mold every single time I've used any medium. I've tried boiling it leaving it dry tried buying from different places, no matter what I always seem to get stinky moldy runny cultures within a few weeks. Since I switched to the mesh I've only had it happen once or twice in the past few years. And it's also pretty compact compared to other mediums since you can fold it up [/QUOTE]
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