Live Fruit Fly Culture, 50 Count
Live Fruit Fly Culture, 50 Count
Fruit flies are a favorite source of nutrition for smaller reptiles and amphibians. This culture contains 50 fruit flies plus nutrient-rich, moist media that lets them keep multiplying, so a single culture stored at room temperature can last up to seven weeks and produce hundreds of flies. Available in select Pet Supermarket stores.
- Nutrition: A small, active live prey that encourages natural hunting behavior.
- Great For: Small frogs, baby geckos, young chameleons and other small reptiles and amphibians.
- Easy to Keep: A self-contained culture that lasts up to seven weeks at room temperature.
Product Details
Product Description
Product Description
Fruit flies are a favorite source of nutrition for smaller reptiles and amphibians. This culture contains 50 fruit flies plus nutrient-rich, moist media that lets them keep multiplying, so a single culture stored at room temperature can last up to seven weeks and produce hundreds of flies. Available in select Pet Supermarket stores.
- Nutrition: A small, active live prey that encourages natural hunting behavior.
- Great For: Small frogs, baby geckos, young chameleons and other small reptiles and amphibians.
- Easy to Keep: A self-contained culture that lasts up to seven weeks at room temperature.
Feeding Instructions
Feeding Instructions
Offer fruit flies a few times per week as part of a varied diet, not as the only food item.
- Quantity: Start with a small pinch of fruit flies per feeding and increase as needed.
- Presentation: Release a small pinch of fresh, active flies into the enclosure and watch your pet catch them.
- Cleanup: Remove uneaten flies so they do not become a nuisance in the enclosure.
Usage & Warning
Usage & Warning
Live feeders are intended as food for pets only. Do not release into the wild. Wash your hands after handling.
Habitat and Care
Habitat and Care
Habitat and Care
The fruit fly culture is designed to keep producing flies when kept in its vial at room temperature.
- Storage: Keep flies in the well-ventilated vial with its feeding media.
- Temperature: Keep at room temperature.
- Food & Water: The media provides all the food and moisture the flies need.
- Shelf Life: Up to seven weeks; always leave about 50% of the flies in the vial to keep the culture reproducing.
Fruit flies are a favorite source of nutrition for smaller reptiles and amphibians. This culture contains 50 fruit flies plus nutrient-rich, moist media that lets them keep multiplying, so a single culture stored at room temperature can last up to seven weeks and produce hundreds of flies. Available in select Pet Supermarket stores.
- Nutrition: A small, active live prey that encourages natural hunting behavior.
- Great For: Small frogs, baby geckos, young chameleons and other small reptiles and amphibians.
- Easy to Keep: A self-contained culture that lasts up to seven weeks at room temperature.
Offer fruit flies a few times per week as part of a varied diet, not as the only food item.
- Quantity: Start with a small pinch of fruit flies per feeding and increase as needed.
- Presentation: Release a small pinch of fresh, active flies into the enclosure and watch your pet catch them.
- Cleanup: Remove uneaten flies so they do not become a nuisance in the enclosure.
Live feeders are intended as food for pets only. Do not release into the wild. Wash your hands after handling.
Habitat and Care
The fruit fly culture is designed to keep producing flies when kept in its vial at room temperature.
- Storage: Keep flies in the well-ventilated vial with its feeding media.
- Temperature: Keep at room temperature.
- Food & Water: The media provides all the food and moisture the flies need.
- Shelf Life: Up to seven weeks; always leave about 50% of the flies in the vial to keep the culture reproducing.
