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Fruit flies are the perfect food source for many exotic pets. You can feed frogs, (young) mantises, small spiders, and many other amphibians and reptiles with fruit flies. They make the perfect food source, not only nutritional but also to stimulate hunting behaviours. You can buy fruit flies in specialized pet shops or at the online store. But when you found this article, you probably considered breeding them yourself. Well, let me tell you: if you follow this guide, it is rather easy to breed your own fruit flies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To breed fruit flies at home, you only need small 500ml plastic containers, place a nutritional food mix media on the bottom, add some natural wood wool on top, and add around 30 fruit flies to each container. Depending on the fruit fly species, within 12-20 days, you have<\/strong><\/strong> tripled to tenfold the number of fruit flies. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although there are fruit fly breeding kits available, you can also breed them easily with the stuff you can get in a supermarket and the tools at home. If you make a good system and keep to the schedule, you never have to buy fruit flies yourself. You could even breed so many fruit flies you can sell them yourself. With this guide, I show you how easy it is to breed fruit flies at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you need for breeding fruit flies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The following supplies are needed to start your fruit flies breeding cultures: <\/p>\n\n\n\n