10-21-2013, 05:37 PM
I've been making very successful FF cultures for a few months now, just massive amounts of flies. When I throw away old cultures I could probably still feed from them.
Unfortunately, my last two cultures have both, surprisingly, crashed. I don't think it's mites, can't see any and I also recently revamped my culture cabinet, including new mite paper and spray in the drawers. Nothing else at all has changed as far as my culture-making, and the only environment change has been a slight increase in humidity.
Is it possible to wreck a culture by poor use of excelsior? It's the only part of the process I seem to suck at. One culture had pretty clean sides and then, the next day, lots of little larva casings (or whatever those things are) and even larva all over the sides. The crashed cultures were both ones where I think I used too little excelsior.
Hoping like heck my new third culture (which I made just before the crashes) booms, or that the many live maggots in the crashed cultures eventually grow up.
Unfortunately, my last two cultures have both, surprisingly, crashed. I don't think it's mites, can't see any and I also recently revamped my culture cabinet, including new mite paper and spray in the drawers. Nothing else at all has changed as far as my culture-making, and the only environment change has been a slight increase in humidity.
Is it possible to wreck a culture by poor use of excelsior? It's the only part of the process I seem to suck at. One culture had pretty clean sides and then, the next day, lots of little larva casings (or whatever those things are) and even larva all over the sides. The crashed cultures were both ones where I think I used too little excelsior.
Hoping like heck my new third culture (which I made just before the crashes) booms, or that the many live maggots in the crashed cultures eventually grow up.
A girl named Joey.