Bottle fly pupae
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AFH
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I think either one are fine. I think bottle flies are a little bigger.
You can gut load them. I got this from the Kammers:
Gut loading:
Since the flies emerge with empty stomachs, you will want to "gut-load" the flies to make them nutritious for your chameleons. You can mix a soft-boiled egg (mashed to a smooth consistency) with a few teaspoons of plain yogurt, baby rice cereal and some honey. Once cooled, take the culture out of the fridge and knock the flies down by tapping the container to one side. Carefully open the lid and smear a generous teaspoon full of fly food to the side of the container. When the flies warm back up to room temperature (within minutes), they will immediately begin feeding on the yogurt mixture. Two to three hours later, they should be ready to feed out. From this point forward, the flies can stay out. You can gut load any remaining flies the next day, by following the same procedure listed above.
My recommendation is to make sure the mixture is dry and sticky. I drowned a whole culture of pupae with a runny gutload once.
You can gut load them. I got this from the Kammers:
Gut loading:
Since the flies emerge with empty stomachs, you will want to "gut-load" the flies to make them nutritious for your chameleons. You can mix a soft-boiled egg (mashed to a smooth consistency) with a few teaspoons of plain yogurt, baby rice cereal and some honey. Once cooled, take the culture out of the fridge and knock the flies down by tapping the container to one side. Carefully open the lid and smear a generous teaspoon full of fly food to the side of the container. When the flies warm back up to room temperature (within minutes), they will immediately begin feeding on the yogurt mixture. Two to three hours later, they should be ready to feed out. From this point forward, the flies can stay out. You can gut load any remaining flies the next day, by following the same procedure listed above.
My recommendation is to make sure the mixture is dry and sticky. I drowned a whole culture of pupae with a runny gutload once.
I've purchase them from kammers and mantisplace.com. Mantis place is much better source for your flies. I would only mess with the bottle flies though as they are about three times the size of the houseflies. Kammers will only ship them overnight and that's about thirty five bucks. Mantis place ships them any way you want. I get them sent USPS priority mail. Cost's about eleven dollars If I remember correctly. They came in just fine and almost all hatched. The problem with them is that they all hatch at once and you have about three or four hundred flies on your hands. You can put the pupae in the fridge to stop them from hatching but only for about a week, then the die off rate really starts to accelerate. I now just buy the maggots from grubco.com. You can keep them in the fridge for two months. I pull out about twenty a day and keep them in seperate containers. That way in about ten days to two weeks you'll have about twenty hatching flies every day. Good luck with them . It's also alot of fun to watch your chams go after them. All of mine love them. David
Eric Adrignola
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try spiderfpharm - DIRT cheap. Like a few dollars for thousands of flies.
