Me and ventress seem to constantly be fighting a losing battle against tiny flies (i think they are coffin flies as fruit fly traps dont see to get them) i have fly paper strips behind the viv but still there are a fair few in there, no matter how often i clean out all substrate and start again they come back, i think its the combination of heat, high humidity and a wooden viv (he has a plastic one being made as we speak) in the mean time though ive found this fly paper on amazon that i could stick to the top of the viv, he cant reach up there so is there any other reason anyone can think of why i shouldnt do this? As i say, it is just a short term solution until end of october.
Let me know what you think, thankyou.
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Re: Fly paper
Hi there,
I had the exact same problem a while ago and tried alot of the usual remedies without success - from memory they got in during a flyscreen change for the room and then kept reproducing in the substrate. Was a losing battle! Eventually I was able to eliminate them by removing coir peat from my substrate mix to gradually dry it out- and when the numbers had dwindled a thorough clean followed by switching to using pure eucalyptus mulch. (Also combats them as they hate eucalyptus) Low moisture is their Achilles heel which makes it basically impossible for you to deal with that way.
As long as the paper cannot fall off in any way, and is tolerant of both humidity and high temps (depending where it is placed in the enclosure) it may help you cut the population down before hitting them again with the total clean up in October. Unless anyone has any specific objections I'd say give it a crack. Good luck.
I had the exact same problem a while ago and tried alot of the usual remedies without success - from memory they got in during a flyscreen change for the room and then kept reproducing in the substrate. Was a losing battle! Eventually I was able to eliminate them by removing coir peat from my substrate mix to gradually dry it out- and when the numbers had dwindled a thorough clean followed by switching to using pure eucalyptus mulch. (Also combats them as they hate eucalyptus) Low moisture is their Achilles heel which makes it basically impossible for you to deal with that way.
As long as the paper cannot fall off in any way, and is tolerant of both humidity and high temps (depending where it is placed in the enclosure) it may help you cut the population down before hitting them again with the total clean up in October. Unless anyone has any specific objections I'd say give it a crack. Good luck.
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Re: Fly paper
As long as you are absolutely certain there is no way he can reach it, it should be fine.
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