Extremely disappointed
I bought these for my praying mantis and it barley fed him 3xs, the flies didn't keep producing.
Flightless Fruit Flies Culture
$7.00
Flightless Fruit Flies | Buy Live Cultures
Live fruit flies are a great option for feeding small lizards and many species of frogs, especially because of their reproduction cycle. Each culture of flightless fruit flies has a lifespan of about one month, and even after they die they will continually pupate from eggs laid by the adults in the culture! This will allow you to keep fruit flies for a while, as long as they are taken care of accurately. Regular fruit flies should be kept at 70 - 75 degrees and giant fruit flies should be kept at 78 - 83 degrees. If the culture is not stored at an appropriate temperature, it could possibly mold. The flies have everything they need inside of the container they are shipped in; just feed to your animal as needed! Buy flightless fruit flies from us today!
We advise that the customer should never remove all of the fruit flies from the Fruit Fly Culture, a few should be left in the vial for breeders. This will increase the lifespan of the vial and result in the need to buy fruit flies less often.
- Each Live Flightless Fruit Fly Culture contains 40-50 medium adult flies.
- Cultures should be stored at room temperature and kept out of direct sunlight.
Regular fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are about 1/16"
Giant fruit flies (Drosphila hydei) are about 1/8"
FEEDING INSTRUCTIONS:
Gently tap the top of the culture to knock the fruit flies to the bottom. Remove cover and shake out the desired amount. It is recommended that you dust your flies with a vitamin supplement such as Fluker's Repta-Calcium or Fluker's Repta-Vitamin prior to feeding them to your pet.
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For more information on Fluker's Feeder Insects, go to the Fruit Flies Care Sheet.
Additional feeder insect resources
Click here for information on how to convert your reptile from live insects to a freeze dried diet.
18 Reviews
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What a rip off
You guys should put a giant sized disclaimer on the description and tell people that these are 2-3 inch vials of FF. Never again! I can get 32oz from other sites for the same price and get way more than the crap I received. I picked the giant option and they appear to be melanogaster flies. Absolutely horrible!
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This is a 2" vial
Just FYI this is a tiny 3" vial with around 50 living flies. I will NEVER order from here again. One point for arriving alive, -4 points for misleading product page which does not mention a vial size ANYWHERE. You can go to a big box pet store and get triple the product for the same price without paying shipping. Never again.
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Fruit Fly cultures
Ordered a few of these they came in small vials. This is how much you pay for big 32oz deli sized cultures. Never in my life Have I seen cultures this small, they're tiny bottles of fruit Flys what a rip off!!
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Fruit flies
It only took 6 days to deliver which was nice but virtually all the flies were dead!
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FLIGHTLESS fruit flies
If you’re ordering flightless bugs, I feel like it’s completely fair to expect them to be, in fact, flightless. Unfortunately, that is not the case with this culture. Every fruit fly in this has wings. My poor baby gecko is unable to hunt these due to them being able to fly away. This is incredibly disappointing, and I will not be purchasing from Fluker’s again.
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Flightless Fruit Flies Culture
I ordered a fruit fly culture for my little jumping spider and I'm so pleased with what I received. There are so many flies (especially compared to what I got at my local pet store) and it only took 3 days from the time I placed the order till they showed up in my mailbox. Will definitely order again.
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hit or miss
Last order died fast with no babies. Large fruit flies had mites. Now the site doesn't allow me to purchase fruit flies, not sure what's going on.
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always have mites
I've bought 3 tubes of these at different times and they always have mites and dry out super fast. I've contacted support about the issue and their "fruit fly guy looked at them, he said he didn't know what that was. He hasn't had any mite problems back there". Go elsewhere for healthy FF cultures.