Our fruit fly starter kit includes all materials needed to start ten new fruit fly cultures- Ten 24 oz cups, ten ventilated lids, media for ten cultures, and excelsior wood shavings. The kit includes a producing culture of our curly wing gliders variety of flightless fruit flies. If the culture arrives in good shape* you should be able to make a culture or two right away, or feed some frogs. The culture should continue to produce for around 2 weeks. We’ve helped hundreds of hobbyists get started culturing fruit flies, it is easy and a cheap way to feed your frogs!
This kit will work with all the fruit fly varieties we carry, although it will ship with 24 oz cups and, so this kit is best left to the melanogaster forms, curly winged gliders and the wingless form. If you are interested in culturing the wingless form, let me know by writing a note in the message box when you are placing your order. Otherwise by default you will get the curly wing melanogaster.
* There is only so much we can do to protect the fruit fly cultures during shipping, and when the boxes are banged around in shipping sometimes they get damaged. For safest shipping we recommend nothing less than FedEx 2nd Day service. Hold for pickup at FedEx is recommended as well! Another tip for making sure you get the flies you need on the first try- if you request it, we will pack the flies in a cup with no media. The main way the flies get killed is that they get drowned or covered in the media when the box is dropped or otherwise abused. If we send you flies in a cup, they only have a small amount of media in the bottom of the cup, and you will increase your chances of live arrival. Of course they can still be damaged by heat or cold…Please see our Live Arrival Guarantee back at the category index page for more on this!
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