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Food and Feeding
Fruit fly culture mites.
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<blockquote data-quote="dwalls247" data-source="post: 282071" data-attributes="member: 4124"><p>Ive been culturing hydei and melo fruit flies for close to five years now,started them for dart frogs.Now I feed them to the mantids,bettas,carnivorous plants,and the dart frogs.Ive had mites come and go from time to time,and never lost anything from eating them when they had mites.As others have said,and from what Ive heard/read,the mites are harmless to any of your pets,but do compete with the fruit flies which causes the cultures to crash a lot sooner.I found the diatomecous powder not sure if Im spelling that properly,but either way it seems to help keep the mites down.I cover the bottom of a sweater bin and keep the cultures in it with an inch of space between the cups so the mites cant walk from one cup to the other without going through the powder first.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dwalls247, post: 282071, member: 4124"] Ive been culturing hydei and melo fruit flies for close to five years now,started them for dart frogs.Now I feed them to the mantids,bettas,carnivorous plants,and the dart frogs.Ive had mites come and go from time to time,and never lost anything from eating them when they had mites.As others have said,and from what Ive heard/read,the mites are harmless to any of your pets,but do compete with the fruit flies which causes the cultures to crash a lot sooner.I found the diatomecous powder not sure if Im spelling that properly,but either way it seems to help keep the mites down.I cover the bottom of a sweater bin and keep the cultures in it with an inch of space between the cups so the mites cant walk from one cup to the other without going through the powder first. [/QUOTE]
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