We advise that the customer should never remove all of the fruit flies from the Fruit Fly Culture, a few should be left in the vial for breeders. This will increase the lifespan of the vial and result in the need to buy fruit flies less often.
Gently tap the top of the culture to knock the fruit flies to the bottom. Remove cover and shake out the desired amount. It is recommended that you dust your flies with a vitamin supplement such as Fluker's Repta-Calcium or Fluker's Repta-Vitamin prior to feeding them to your pet.
| Orders placed before 3 pm CT Tuesday-Thursday and orders placed prior to 10 am CT on Friday will ship same-day provided the selected Shipping Service Level is available that day (noted in green in table below.) If the shipping service level is not available for that day (noted in red in table below), then the order will be shipped on the following business day. Please be aware that same-day shipping may be affected on postal holidays. Same day shipping NOT currently available for USPS shipments on Mondays. | |||||
| Shipping Service Level | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| FedEx Overnight Priority/Standard | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Monday |
| FedEx 2nd Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Monday | |
| FedEx Ground | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Monday | |
| FedEx Home-Deilvery | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Monday |
| FedEx Express Saver 3 Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Monday | ||
| USPS First Class Est. Delivery: 2-7 days | Ships Tuesday | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day |
| USPS Priority Mail Est. Delivery: 2-3 days | Ships Tuesday | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day | Ships Same Day |
Which shipping method should I choose? We offer a wide variety of options for shipping your live insects. Using the chart above as reference, our customers can choose which shipping service will work best for them. It is important to take into account that transit times vary greatly between the different options. USPS First Class Mail can take up to 7 business days and Fedex Overnight is a one business day in transit service. What works well for some customers will not always work well for others. If it is during the hot summer months or cold winter months we recommend not using USPS First Class Mail because it is the slowest option and increases the risk of receiving your insects DOA. Make sure to check the weather, carefully taking into account transit time and places that your package will travel through. Also important to consider is the price between the shipping methods: USPS First Class Mail is the cheapest, Fedex Priority Overnight is the most expensive with many options in between. We try to provide as much information as possible but it is ultimately up to the customer to make the best choice based on weather and the quality of delivery services available to your area.
For more information on Fluker's Feeder Insects, go to the Fruit Flies Care Sheet.
Click here for information on how to convert your reptile from live insects to a freeze dried diet.
You guys should put a giant sized disclaimer on the description and tell people that these are 2-3 inch vials of FF. Never again! I can get 32oz from other sites for the same price and get way more than the crap I received. I picked the giant option and they appear to be melanogaster flies. Absolutely horrible!
Just FYI this is a tiny 3" vial with around 50 living flies. I will NEVER order from here again. One point for arriving alive, -4 points for misleading product page which does not mention a vial size ANYWHERE. You can go to a big box pet store and get triple the product for the same price without paying shipping. Never again.
Ordered a few of these they came in small vials. This is how much you pay for big 32oz deli sized cultures. Never in my life Have I seen cultures this small, they're tiny bottles of fruit Flys what a rip off!!
It only took 6 days to deliver which was nice but virtually all the flies were dead!
If you’re ordering flightless bugs, I feel like it’s completely fair to expect them to be, in fact, flightless. Unfortunately, that is not the case with this culture. Every fruit fly in this has wings. My poor baby gecko is unable to hunt these due to them being able to fly away. This is incredibly disappointing, and I will not be purchasing from Fluker’s again.
I ordered a fruit fly culture for my little jumping spider and I'm so pleased with what I received. There are so many flies (especially compared to what I got at my local pet store) and it only took 3 days from the time I placed the order till they showed up in my mailbox. Will definitely order again.
Last order died fast with no babies. Large fruit flies had mites. Now the site doesn't allow me to purchase fruit flies, not sure what's going on.
I've bought 3 tubes of these at different times and they always have mites and dry out super fast. I've contacted support about the issue and their "fruit fly guy looked at them, he said he didn't know what that was. He hasn't had any mite problems back there". Go elsewhere for healthy FF cultures.
This is an update on my previous review, which, unfortunately, for some reason, was never posted. So, even though all the flies died within 6 days of receiving the culture, some of the larvae have hatched and I have a nice new supply of flies. And there are more 'babies' waiting to be born. I updated my rating to 5 stars because of this. No, it's not a big vial. If you need to feed these flies in abundance, you need a bigger culture. But I have to say, I am quite pleased that I have a continuous supply for my nymph mantises. Do not throw the culture away when the flies die. If you look at the sides of the vial, you will see tiny, white oval shaped 'eggs'. In a couple of days they will turn black and then hatch in about 4 days.
