Feeding pinheads and fruit flies.
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graham cracker
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You can cup feed the crickets in like one of those clear plastic fruit cups or "beer cups". You can either set it at the bottom of the cage, or tie it to a branch, or the side of the cage. Since the crickets are small they won't be able to jump out. And as he gets bigger you can do something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xCyPmEYInk The crickets don't usually jump outta that, they just wanna climb and hide...
xanthoman
Avid Member
the first part of the battle is to stop using meleongasters.
first of all almost all petstore cultures are melongasters.
mites love ff cultures
imo, almost all petstore melongasters have mites because of being kept in close proximity to poorly kept cricketsand dumped out animal litter.
melongasters are unruly little monsters, theyre fast, quick to disperse, small enough to walk through cham screen like it wasnt even there, smaller hydei can also get through cham screen, but it slows bigger ones down a bit.
i raised neonates in an open top 10 and had about<1%escape rate.
let a couple of my mantise hang out above the cage to pick up the occasional fugitive.
youll notice in one of the threads below there are hydei just hanging out on a bamboo skewer.
you could never get melongasters to do that in a million years. if you are doing it in an aq you can also baby oil the top inside 2" perimeter, since they can only hop, very few get out. they just walk up to the baby oil and fall back down lol. dumping petstore ffs from above is bad, they can get mites, media or excelsizor in their eyes , imo better to make a escapement container out of whatever they came in. then you can just shut the flow of flies off whenever you want. jmo. there are also pics of hydei cultures and escapement containers in my public albums.
mite free cultures are hard to find. you almost have to culture them yourself. ff cultures easy to raise, mite free ff cultures are fairly easy to raise, but you need to have your act together (dedicated culture station and such)
a good magnifying glass especially a lighted one is a great tool for telling if (how many)there are mites in your cultures.
https://www.chameleonforums.com/any-tricks-feeding-off-fruit-flies-pins-43545/
https://www.chameleonforums.com/how-do-you-keep-fruit-flies-your-containers-42353/
preferred ways to clean mite infested melongaster cultures (or any melongaster cultures.)
gasoline
napalm
microwave ovens
concrete
epoxy
fire
nuclear radiation/nuclear weapons
muriatic acid
C2H4O
all of the above just to be safe
edit; i also like to put them in a vacuum chamber, and suck the air out real, real slowly, while i pretend that they are little tiny people, that didnt properly fill out the help form. lol.
first of all almost all petstore cultures are melongasters.
mites love ff cultures
imo, almost all petstore melongasters have mites because of being kept in close proximity to poorly kept cricketsand dumped out animal litter.
melongasters are unruly little monsters, theyre fast, quick to disperse, small enough to walk through cham screen like it wasnt even there, smaller hydei can also get through cham screen, but it slows bigger ones down a bit.
i raised neonates in an open top 10 and had about<1%escape rate.
let a couple of my mantise hang out above the cage to pick up the occasional fugitive.
youll notice in one of the threads below there are hydei just hanging out on a bamboo skewer.
you could never get melongasters to do that in a million years. if you are doing it in an aq you can also baby oil the top inside 2" perimeter, since they can only hop, very few get out. they just walk up to the baby oil and fall back down lol. dumping petstore ffs from above is bad, they can get mites, media or excelsizor in their eyes , imo better to make a escapement container out of whatever they came in. then you can just shut the flow of flies off whenever you want. jmo. there are also pics of hydei cultures and escapement containers in my public albums.
mite free cultures are hard to find. you almost have to culture them yourself. ff cultures easy to raise, mite free ff cultures are fairly easy to raise, but you need to have your act together (dedicated culture station and such)
a good magnifying glass especially a lighted one is a great tool for telling if (how many)there are mites in your cultures.
https://www.chameleonforums.com/any-tricks-feeding-off-fruit-flies-pins-43545/
https://www.chameleonforums.com/how-do-you-keep-fruit-flies-your-containers-42353/
preferred ways to clean mite infested melongaster cultures (or any melongaster cultures.)
gasoline
napalm
microwave ovens
concrete
epoxy
fire
nuclear radiation/nuclear weapons
muriatic acid
C2H4O
all of the above just to be safe
edit; i also like to put them in a vacuum chamber, and suck the air out real, real slowly, while i pretend that they are little tiny people, that didnt properly fill out the help form. lol.
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