So the Fruit Fly cultures from 11/27 hatched in two weeks. One of the cultures from 11/3 got mold around the same time. I’m letting the mold grow while I start new cultures. The one with mold happened to have too much food media, so maybe that will teach me something. The next culture I plan to try 1/4 cup of the dry mix I made with 1/4 vinegar and 1/4 water. We’ll see what that does.I’ve started rotating 2 cultures every week as I learn what works and what doesn’t.

In starting  a new vivarium I made a silly mistake of not actually gluing the glass, but rather only adding silicon to keep the water in. The silicon appears to hold, but will not stand up to the heavy pressures of moving the vivarium. I’m not sure if I want to clean all the silicon off and try again on these first two vivariums. One of the glass pieces fell due to bad placement and now I have broken edges. I’m trying to decide if I could continue to try and make a vivarium with the broken edges, or accept the loss and move forward.

The video was shot on November 14. I’m not sure why I said it was October.