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Greetings all,
Having some troubles with FF (melanos) crashing. This is getting quite frustrating.
I'll explain:
1st attempt: Picked up some supplies from Josh's. Mixed everything up properly and got a starter culture from a local frogger (Orchid Lady). Mold happened. In a really bad way. I dont recall what it's called at this moment but it was the bad black mold that grows on fruit/veggies, etc.
Solution: located the source of the problem and fixed it. I trashed the culture and container.
2nd attempt: Still using Josh's supplies. Got some melanos from petco. Made the mix, this time I nuked everything (including lids). Then added flies. Flies are stored in sterilite containers - with some water in the bottom. Water is heated to 78deg. Two cultures made on dec 20th. It looked like they started going - as the media started to get mixed up, etc. Two days ago they looked good but not booming. Today - everything is dead. To make matters weirder - the original petco culture is still doing well - and stored in the same spot.
Any ideas? If pics would help let me know. Frogs coming on jan 22 so I kinda need to figure out my problems! BTW - the springs are doing excellent.
- ryan
Having some troubles with FF (melanos) crashing. This is getting quite frustrating.
I'll explain:
1st attempt: Picked up some supplies from Josh's. Mixed everything up properly and got a starter culture from a local frogger (Orchid Lady). Mold happened. In a really bad way. I dont recall what it's called at this moment but it was the bad black mold that grows on fruit/veggies, etc.
Solution: located the source of the problem and fixed it. I trashed the culture and container.
2nd attempt: Still using Josh's supplies. Got some melanos from petco. Made the mix, this time I nuked everything (including lids). Then added flies. Flies are stored in sterilite containers - with some water in the bottom. Water is heated to 78deg. Two cultures made on dec 20th. It looked like they started going - as the media started to get mixed up, etc. Two days ago they looked good but not booming. Today - everything is dead. To make matters weirder - the original petco culture is still doing well - and stored in the same spot.
Any ideas? If pics would help let me know. Frogs coming on jan 22 so I kinda need to figure out my problems! BTW - the springs are doing excellent.
- ryan