blue bottle flies
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ciafardo 4
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theres a whole thread on these its very informative look under cham food
the fly food and is seperate, I will be adding it later when I get my new site up, if u buy the food it has all the gutloading nutrients you will need, it has bee pollen, honey, sugar, milk and a new special ingredient!
here is the way to do it:
take the spikes or pupae, whichever u prefer and purchase, into a fruit fly bottle or fly container, and let the spikes pupae, or the pupae hatch. the spikes take about 8 days to turn into flies if left out the whole time, put in fridge at end of day 4 and then just take out what you want to hatch each day, or enough for a week if u intend to feed them. The pupae is the same way, only takes about 2 days to hatch. When u receive the pupae, place in fridge leaving out only what u want to hatch each day or for the week if u intend to feed them.
take the spikes or pupae, whichever u prefer and purchase, into a fruit fly bottle or fly container, and let the spikes pupae, or the pupae hatch. the spikes take about 8 days to turn into flies if left out the whole time, put in fridge at end of day 4 and then just take out what you want to hatch each day, or enough for a week if u intend to feed them. The pupae is the same way, only takes about 2 days to hatch. When u receive the pupae, place in fridge leaving out only what u want to hatch each day or for the week if u intend to feed them.
jojackson
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Flys are very easy Naich, I just hatch as many pupae as needed, I use a styrofoam cup,
with clingfilm over the top. Few pinholes, small hole in side of cup near the rim.
They emerge the size of regular houseflys and Homer used to eat them as they appeared.
Ive no idea if its worth buying 'fly food', to gutload them though, I cant see how there would be any nutritional difference. Maybe something moist in the cup.
Your cham will love them, homer was zapping flys as a hatchling, was great fun, he enjoyed them, and I could be sure he was eating regularly, besides his normal food.
cheers
P.s occasional I used to drop a spoon of suppliment powder in the cup with the pupae, some walked through it and emerged coated.
with clingfilm over the top. Few pinholes, small hole in side of cup near the rim.
They emerge the size of regular houseflys and Homer used to eat them as they appeared.
Ive no idea if its worth buying 'fly food', to gutload them though, I cant see how there would be any nutritional difference. Maybe something moist in the cup.
Your cham will love them, homer was zapping flys as a hatchling, was great fun, he enjoyed them, and I could be sure he was eating regularly, besides his normal food.
cheers
P.s occasional I used to drop a spoon of suppliment powder in the cup with the pupae, some walked through it and emerged coated.
They live a couple days, not much more though, they are full size when they hatch, I like to give them a little water though.
The blue bottle flies are 3 times bigger than houseflies, and the Cup-o-Flies from Mantisplace is worth buying with the larvae, to have water cubes, food and pupae in their own seperate containers.
Larvae last several weeks in the refrigerator, pupae don't last long.
Hornworms are also a good silkworm replacement.
Nick
Larvae last several weeks in the refrigerator, pupae don't last long.
Hornworms are also a good silkworm replacement.
Nick
naich
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yeah but man are they expensive...its like 40 bucks for them to come to my house from mulberryfarms....and thats only 2 cups of them! i think the flies will do good and when silks are back in styke my feeding schedual should look like this
crickets and silks
bb flies
crickets
silks and supers
silks and horns
crickets and waxes
sundays a rest day... small portions though because he's 8 months.
crickets and silks
bb flies
crickets
silks and supers
silks and horns
crickets and waxes
sundays a rest day... small portions though because he's 8 months.
Yea, I need the rest on sunday too, my arm gets a crick in it from all the feedings!
I suppose they can, but they usually just walk around and then not much else, they dont fly much in enclosures, so not really sure, they cant hurt it cause they dont have that kind of mouth.
Lizardlover
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I bought them from you and i must say i was pleased, very easy to do...and chams love them
Order hornworms from Great Lakes Hornworm (sponser), buy only 1 cup, shipping from Michigan should be cheaper. Pupate any Hornworms who get too big!
Nick
Thanks Lizardlover!
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