FF culture smell

frogboy13 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-19-2005, 12:05 AM

hey guys how does everyone get rid of that awful FF culture smell. I have all my FF culture in this cupboard and whenever i open it, it smells awful what method does everyone use to get rid of the smell?

beeswaxx · #2 (**permalink**) 09-19-2005, 12:15 AM

My method:
Whenever openening the cupboard the flies are stored in, don't breathe :? .

Works for me, but I'd like to hear what others have to say too.
-Beeswaxx

frogboy13 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-19-2005, 12:17 AM

lol sound like a great idea but my mom smells it everytime shes passes by so i catn tell her "mom just hold ure breath" or else ill see the vivarium out the window lolol

#4 (**permalink**) 09-19-2005, 01:12 AM

hey beeswaxx. I was just wondering how you made your background in your website for the tank in your vivariums page. Let me know thanks.,

Dancing frogs · #5 (**permalink**) 09-19-2005, 04:51 AM

A while back, I made a culture out of some stuff I mixed up for cricket gutload...lots of good stuff...stunk to high hell, but yielded flies faster than anything else I've ever tried.
Anyway, I tried to contain the smell...bad idea, you open the container (in this case a cooler) and just about die.
I found that the best thing was to put the culture somewhere the smell could spread out some, but is out of the way (not on the coffee table :lol: ), fortunatly, I have such a space.
Good luck!

beeswaxx · #6 (**permalink**) 09-19-2005, 05:12 AM

Hehe, I had the same problem with my mom before I put them in another room, in one of those "mini-greenhouses". Now I just have to worry about mites.
-Beeswaxx

Ryan · #7 (**permalink**) 09-19-2005, 12:00 PM

Change your media to something like the carolina mix, the recipe is on doyles dart den. You can also add honey to the mix to help rid the smell.

Ryan

#8 (**permalink**) 09-19-2005, 02:53 PM

I hid my culture in plain sight. The culture is out in the open, and about three feet away from the windows. No smell accumulates outside the culture its self. But I have noticed that the carolina mix doesnt smell, bad. Can you add honey to the carolina mix? How do you do it without making a big sticky mushy fly death trap???

ColombianFrogger · #9 (**permalink**) 09-19-2005, 03:25 PM

maybe you should try to put some instant coffee in your fruit fly cabinet, it will absorb the smell... at least it works for me

Michelle · #10 (**permalink**) 09-19-2005, 06:34 PM

I have one of those greenhouses for my flies and what I do for smell is I keep a box of Baking soda in there (the kind that have the sides that come out, they are made for the fridge, cupboards, ect) and I also have a little electric filter I think it’s a true air one, it has a charcoal filter in it, with both of these it helps but its still there...