How do you feed fruitflies?
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sally
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There is a thread in the feeding forum that is excellent. It shows some great ideas for feeding ffs. Me, I just tap them so they fall off the lid and quickly shake in. But I only use a few. check out the threads they are really informative 
sally
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Oh and put the word " funnel " in the search for the feeding forum all the ideas will pop up.There is a thread in the feeding forum that is excellent. It shows some great ideas for feeding ffs. Me, I just tap them so they fall off the lid and quickly shake in. But I only use a few. check out the threads they are really informative
glock34girl
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The best way that I know is to put the ffs in one of those condiment squirter things and just blow them in. I tried several other ways but this seems to be the quickest route at least for me.
Paradoxica
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I just roll a sheet of glossy paper (like from a magazine) into a cone and tape it. that way you can make it fit the feeding hole perfectly.I looked at some of the topics and they were very helpful thanks! I'll see if i can find a funnel...
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never thought of that! thanks!
Also sounds like a great idea I'll try it!
best free funnels, pop bottle cut in half!!! please, no applause, just throw money! ":tt2:
angelofdeathzz
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zeadlee
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Here is my way(with pics). It may be the same as hibiscusmile's way.
1.This is the tools needed. A funnel and a sauce bottle.
2.Cut a hole on the FF's deli
3.Tap the deli to let the ffs out and get into the sauce bottle through the funnel.
4.squeez the sauce bottle and the ff will be pushed out.
5.cover the hole when finished.
6.And done!
The advantage of this method is you can tap ffs of all your mantis needed in the sauce bottle at one time and squeez them out "a few by a few"(sorry but I don't know how to express this in English, hope you can understand).
1.This is the tools needed. A funnel and a sauce bottle.
2.Cut a hole on the FF's deli
3.Tap the deli to let the ffs out and get into the sauce bottle through the funnel.
4.squeez the sauce bottle and the ff will be pushed out.
5.cover the hole when finished.
6.And done!
The advantage of this method is you can tap ffs of all your mantis needed in the sauce bottle at one time and squeez them out "a few by a few"(sorry but I don't know how to express this in English, hope you can understand).
TheOtherSpecies
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I took a funnel and hot glued it to a deli cup lid... if you get the right sized funnel it will fit perfectly in place within the rim of the deli cup. When its feeding time for my 70+ nymphs in my 10 gal. I tap all the flies away from the top of the deli cup and place my funnel lid in place of my standard cloth deli lid. I cap the tip of the funnel with my finger until i unscrew the lid on my 10 gal and just let them flow in until there are enough to feed them all and done. I am more than willing to share pics of my set up! I should have my photo bucket link on my profile soon with photos of this!
TheOtherSpecies
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I'm scheduled for my new tattoo tonight but I should be able to get pics up by Sunday!
Anything that works is great, make up what works for you! :sailor:
