Soldier Flies?

[Howdyco]

I ordered some Phoenix worms.
Over the past few weeks some started to pupate.
In the last few days a few soldier flies have hatched out.
I already fed them off to my cham flash and just wanted some opinions on whether this is okay?
I did gut-load them similarly to house/blue-bottle flies before feeding them off.
Any thoughts are appreciated.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Totally fine.

-Brad

 

[Ryan Jarosek]

I ordered some Phoenix worms.
Over the past few weeks some started to pupate.
In the last few days a few soldier flies have hatched out.
I already fed them off to my cham flash and just wanted some opinions on whether this is okay?
I did gut-load them similarly to house/blue-bottle flies before feeding them off.
Any thoughts are appreciated.

Like Brad said They are fine.

I would like to point out that you did not gutload them...

Soldier flies do not have functional mouth parts.

They do make a great treat and are fun for the chams to hunt down.

 

[Howdyco]

Wow, thanks Ryan. Is there anyway to effectively gut-load these flies?
If not then treats they will be.

 

[Lizardlover]

actually they have stingers on them, however i dont think they could do much damage...

 

[Zen Reptiles]

Should confine them to the compost, you'd have thousands of phoenix worms before you knew it.

 

[Ryan Jarosek]

Wow, thanks Ryan. Is there anyway to effectively gut-load these flies?
If not then treats they will be.

I would think the only way would be to inject them with something. Other than that you pretty much get what you get.

Their only purpose is to reproduce. All the eating happens when they are larvae.

 

[Howdyco]

Thanks everyone I appreciate the help.
They will serve as treats of sorts, then.
The first two were easy to dust with the calcium and Flash definitely went out of his way to eat them.
I don't think I'll have too many hatch out but it was worth putting those larvae aside that had pupated and letting them do their thing.

 

[insert name here]

I think this is for soldier flies and phoenix worms

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...&sa=N&start=18&um=1&ei=FYcLSqSBH-aEmQff1cj0Bw

 

[Cait0420]

actually they have stingers on them, however i dont think they could do much damage...

I was told that they don't have stingers but just look like they do by the breeder/supplier