Dusting Blue Bottles

[JohnnyD]

My Method: I place 25 pupae in each three oz plastic cup. I then cover each cup tightly with aluminum foil, making a very small airhole in the foil. After they hatch, I make the pinhole a little bigger, drop a pinch or two of calcium powder through the hole, cover the hole with my thumb and shake the plastic cup. Then I use a method I learned from a previous thread and insert a bamboo stick through the aluminum foil lid, tearing the foil open wider than the stick so the flies can crawl up the stick and out into the cage. I have a finicky cham that needed to put on some weight. He eats as many dusted flies as I let him and is filling out nicely. Hopefully this can help some chameleons out there that need to eat more.

 

[Manik6]

Cool! But one question, dnt u have to put the pupae in wood chips and would that affect anything?

 

[JohnnyD]

Each 3oz cup has some of the wood chips that the whole batch came in, so I guess your actually dusting the flies and very small amount of wood chips but they crawl out dusted nicely.

 

[Lizardlover]

Or you could just pop some flies in the fridge, wait for them to go unconscious, dust them, and them, and throw them in the cage, in a few minutes they'll come right back to life. Much easier IMO

 

[Manik6]

Cool! But one question, dnt u have to put the pupae in wood chips and would that affect anything?

 

[Lizardlover]

Cool! But one question, dnt u have to put the pupae in wood chips and would that affect anything?

It really doesnt matter
I always seperate the pupae from woodchips

 

[JohnnyD]

My male Panther was in need of putting on some weight. The flies really helped. He is bulking up and much more active now. For the price and ease of use, I'm suprised everyone doesn't use them.

 

[Manik6]

Sorry I dont know how that posted up twice but i didnt do it. Anyways where do u get your bb flies from.

 

[JohnnyD]

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