RE: [Killietalk] Flies in my culture :(

["Perkins, Stanley" <Stanley_Perkins at fortbend.k12.tx.us>]

Try feeding them anyway and re-culture,  I suggest if you have so many
create a box covered with cheese cloth or other very fine gauze material and
try to mechanically screen them out. One of the local betta breeders uses
shoeboxes and instant rice. I found this to be a Major fly attractant. I
just feed the larvae and smile at the free food.

Stan Perkins

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Barry Cooper [mailto:bjc3 at cornell_edu] 
Sent:	Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:31 AM
To:	killifish discussion list
Subject:	Re: [Killietalk] Flies in my culture :(

The flies I had problems with are not fruit flies and they can get dense 
enough to outcompete the worms.

Barry

At 05:26 AM 9/16/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Sounds like a bunch of old ladies!  I found the stupid flies in my culture
-
>but only in certain containers. Upon examination, I found that those
>containers had breathing holes larger than pin sized.
>
>I found that my larger killies and dwarf cichlids will gobble the larvae
>down. Ah ha! Another live food, after all the flies in my culture are a
wild
>fruit fly!
>
>Don't worry - Be HAPPY!
>
>Stan Perkins
>"Gone fishin'"


Barry J. Cooper, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Cornell
University
Adjunct faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University
Home address: 27505 Riggs Hill Rd., Sweet Home, OR 97386 (bjc3 at cornell_edu)