Live Food

Are there any threads or good websites with detailed instructions on growing your own food cultures...aside from brine shrimp???

Are there any threads or good websites with detailed instructions on growing your own food cultures...aside from brine shrimp???

Flightless fruit flies (drosophila hyieda) are easy to keep and feed. You can get them online or pick up a starter vial from petco in the reptile section. All you have to do is get clean insect growing cups (you can get them cheap on ebay, just add water ) and take a few of the adult flies and put them in a new culture. Soon you see larvae crawling in the medium and a few days later you can see pupae forming on the sides. When the adults begin emerging, you can move a few to a new cup again and keep several cultures going at once. If you only have a few fish you only need to keep a couple going and feed a few out of each one every day. Just be sure you don't exhaust your supply of adults so that there's always some around to lay new eggs.

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