Really easy fruitfly media recipe

[billybatz9]

Hey Guys,
Just thought I'd give you a little recipe for breeding fruitflies yourself....

1) Jar for the flies and media
2) Instant mashed potatoes
3) Some sugar (about a spoon full)
4) Water
5) Active dry yeast. (about 1/4 of a spoon full)

Heres what i did...

Added the instant mashed potatoes and water. Don't be shy with the water. It might look way to watery at first, but keep mixing and you will see how the potatoes dry up the water. It absorbs all of th water. You are going to want to mix it until you get a little bit of apple sauce texture. Then add some sugar and mix really good. Then a bit of active dry yeast (not the whole 1/4 of tablespoo) and mix it really good again. Then let it settle. It will expand and rise a lot. Then kind of hit the bottom of it to make everything compact together (or you will have air bubbles throughout the mix). Then ad a bit of sugar on top and the rest of the 1/4 active dry yeast and your flies......! and you are done.

I saw results in 3 days. With just once culture, It gave me enough flies to make 4 new ones. Crazy amount of flies. It was great

If you have any questions, just ask. I kinda rushed this as you can tell lol

[fish4all]

Whatever works for raising fruit flies for you is great. the only thing I see missing might be nutrients you can add very easily. Some wheat based baby cereal would add a lot nutrition wise. Adding a little brewers yeast will do the same thing and shouldn't cause diminished production.

Personally I don't like using active yeast because in my cultures the media gets too soupy too fast. This is just my experience though and I know some that swear by it.

[deranged chipmunk]

I'm afraid I have to call bull here. 3 days? What kind of radioactive super species fly are you raising? Drosophila melanogaster take 2 weeks on average, under IDEAL conditions, no sooner that 8 or 9 days. Drosophila hydro take even longer, 21 days or so. Maybe you had your days confused? Or you transferred media over, but there's no biological way you cultured any species of fruit fly in 3 days.

[deranged chipmunk]

Sorry, forgot to add reference materials
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[billybatz9]

Sorry I never got back to this. But yes, I did see results in 3 days. I saw the larvae, not actual flies... But i saw tons and tons of larvae crawling around the container. Lots and lots of them. I used the fruitflies they sell at petco btw. Dont know the species.

[Tongue Flicker]

I'm afraid I have to call bull here. 3 days? What kind of radioactive super species fly are you raising? Drosophila melanogaster take 2 weeks on average, under IDEAL conditions, no sooner that 8 or 9 days. Drosophila hydro take even longer, 21 days or so. Maybe you had your days confused? Or you transferred media over, but there's no biological way you cultured any species of fruit fly in 3 days.

Lol you beat me to it. Was about to say the same.