Two Vatiants of this unairworthy fruit fly are cultivated. The 4 mm of big drosophilas hydei and the 2 mm little drosophilas melanogaster.
Both are used by almost every dartfrog keeper as a main food. As a cultivation container are plastic beaker, or glasses with screw top in use. This is important cooling holes are in the lid around the arising gasses at fermentation to be able to to escape. Moreover, it makes sense to put a piece of lady stocking or kitchen napkin over the glass before it is locked with a lid. This is reason for it the holes can so smally be seldom stung by hand without this in be able to the flies escape. Drosophilas will it is advisably the containers overnight without, which serves as a cultivation approach, be entitled to let outgassing around it have give the cultivation mash in the glasses after that. As an approach 20-40 flies suffice. You should stand at a temperature of approx. 23-25 centigrades now. You should take into account that these destroy the approach the development of the drosophilas lasts too long and robbery mites can too warmly develop if the cultivation containers stand too cool. As a rule, it lasts to from this new for approaches approx. 20-25 days drosophila has developed. Mostly, one then can from these approaches verfüttern for 1 month. It has turned out our experience that it is advisable to make new food approaches every 10-14 days. There are several recipes for the cultivation mash of the drosophilas meanwhile. Almost every frog holder has its own recipe on this meanwhile it swears.