Green/Blue bottle fly husbandry
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- This is a video showing you how i develop, mature, and gut load green and blue bottle flies. A method to ensure you have a steady stream of healthy, and nutritious flies to use as feeders for praying mantids, or any other animal which utilizes large flies as prey.
Thank you so much for this! I needed help with sorting flies out for my jumping spider. Admittedly, I need far less than you, but this has given me the info to be able to have a steady supply ready for her.
i close my eyes and imagine karl pilkington giving info about flies
Haha, thanks! I’ll try to be more ‘me’ in future 😂😂
Ive just come here to learn about keeping flys, then realized you are the guy whos just sold me 2 Ghost mantis and threw and extra one in as a gift, dude you are awsum
This was incredibly helpful, even 5 years later! Thank you so much. I'm definitely gonna do this.
I might 3D print some connectors with sliders since I'm not quite as fast as you with closing things (and also I like to waste time.)
You’re welcome 😊 Glad I could help…..best of luck with your system! Please come along to the livestreams on my channel, regular rehousings, updates, breeding projects and care advice etc….
Just came across this Vid ! I bought an Australian rainforest mantis from you some time ago, for my 8 year old grandson .
We’ve had great fun with him ( but maybe her ?) learning how to hatch casters into flies… he loves them !
Thanks again …. We will buy from you again .
This video is everything I needed, thank you so much. I recently got my first Mantids ( deroplatys lobata) and i was trying to learn how to culture these so i dont need to go to a shop ( living in the countryside) or pay for shipping costs. very helpful and the device you built is also something i will be stealing.
Thanks so much my phiddipus spiders are ever grateful, yes even flies lives matter 👍 we don't want to be cruel to our micro animal friends.
Great advice, keep the videos coming Andrew!
Thanks Sam :) Lots more to come mate. Now i've got a bit more time on my hands, i feel i can do more of the things i've wanted to do for years! If you haven't already, check out my Facebook page 'Unseen Universe'.....that's where i do my live streaming and post macro photography etc.... ~Mitch.
Thx for this m8. Last few days watched a lot of videos about how to keep them alive and non is what i need and what i want to do with mine. Your video finaly give me some good info. Now i know how to keep them alive so far i was spendig a lot of work to make them hatch few at the time not more then 10 or 15 and doing that is reall pain in the a$$. Now will try this hope they will survive long enough to become foodfor my mantia and lizard.
Lord 艾艾 Sky you’re welcome mate 😊 Good luck with your attempts. You can also try just keeping the hatched flies in the fridge, and lightly dusting them with bee pollen or some other nutritional powder before you feed them to your lizards.
@@UnseenUniverse_Mitch yeah but i need them to breed to get new ones because here is winter and those i already have cant live forever and have them more then my mantis and lizard can use.
@@UnseenUniverse_Mitch hi again. I did try your method and there is one small problem with it. When i mix honey, bee polen and water after 2 or 3 days that mixture starts fermentation and flyes not feeding on it. Then i did next, 1 bottle cap with honey and sponge 1 bottle cap with bee polen and 1 bottle cap with water and sponge, now they are doing fine some of them drink water some eat honey some bee polen and still all alive ones that hatched in captivity and ones i did catch outside.
Do the flies reproduce at any time starting the cycle all over? I'm wondering if there's a way to make them breed too.
Ty for the video, I just got my first few pairs of Orchid Mantids which require the bluebottle flies in this really helped me out a lot so thank you I do have a question about breeding however do you think you can make a video on how you breed them to get more maggots
Very well said.
I would LOVE to buy this set up from you!!!
Just got some Blue bottle and green bottle casters today, info appreciated. :)
Do you know how to tell if your pupae are duds are not?
I buy my mantis from you!
Great informative video, do you have a good fruit fly media recipe you could recommend please?
I'm trying to hatch one of my greenbottles but it seems to be taking forever. Its gone a little darker so I don't know if that means it's going to hatch soon
Do you mist the castors or do they stay dry?
Does the honey mixture ever rot?
Can you feed other foods to them? Also, do you just leave the flies out of the fridge?
Brennen Canfield I don’t see why not. Just dust them with any type of nutritional powder before you feed them to whatever you are using them for.
I keep some in the fridge, and others in my bug room, just depends how many I need over the course of the next few days etc...
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