Is setting up a fruit fly culture hard?

[jrh3]

I use the listed recipe above which is awesome but i also use joshsfrogs media it is also great and has great turnout.

Elxisor can be bought at hobby lobby or any craft store.

 

[Krissim Klaw]

The problem is I can't seem to find any excelsior around me, it's not the cost that makes me want to reuse it.

You could just use some coffee filters. That is what I use for mine.

 

[fleurdejoo]

Woah, woah, WOAH!

Excelsior may have mites???????

What???

Are you for rizzle?

I like the excelsior because sometimes the coffee filters just get too big and floppy.

But I did not know that excelsior might contain mites.

I'm itchy now.

So how long in the microwave?

 

[JTHMfreak]

If you look at my gallery I have found the perfect substitute (as far as I am concerned)



This stuff works great, is dirt cheap, and reusable. You can easily see I have a thriving FF colony

 

[BugLover]

Yeah, but I was curious to see how well and long they would hold up for. Plus I had already made everything. Can excelsior be washed off and reused?

I have re-used excelsior only once before. I just rinsed it in water and let it dry on a paper towel in the sun (by a window, on your porch). I did not know it could hurt anything though, so I won't recommend it.