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Philsuma Wrote:anyone else seeing a new, recent kind of deli cup that is more brittle and cheaply made ?
Here ya go mate, a buy one get a meander free reply :lol:
Actually we are seeing some very thin cups appearing here too Phil !We really wouldn't be aware but for the fact that we have had a bit of a fight with ff this summer. i had the "good idea :roll: " of getting some new strains of flies in. with it they brought the mite from hell,much bigger than any mite I have seen previously. Normally we grab those big old fashioned sweet jars,made of plastic, they serve us well last for ages. Since we had this mite mess,we have used smaller deli cups so max out available cultures. This is why i'm aware of a quality change in them. As a side note and off topic we are almost on top of it now,we needed to aquire just the right size mesh to sieve out the dusted mites,trouble is, they all but fit through the same size hole as a mel,so a precise mesh was needed. Finding that exact mesh was a complete nightmare!! We simply cut a hole in a sweet jar lid,siliconed the mesh to this,pour some vit dust in ,add flies put in meshed lid,swirl and shake...invert dust and mites fall though mesh... and...HOPEFULLY Bob's ya uncle clean flies in the jar ready for culturing...kerching .
So yeah can't wait to get completely back to normal those cups are awful and learnt a valuable lesson QT new flies,not just the ruddy frogs. We lost a strain of mel we had here for 3 years because of this, built out of one bought GOOD culture.
Sorry for the off topic meander,but some one will get out of a spot between a rock and a hard place after reading this. We all get a few mites we all use the usual methods and do ok,sometimes one needs a different method to tackle a problem ,all be it avoidable,sharing mistakes is how we learn
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