Hello all,

After about 30 successful cultures, I found some mold in one of my fruit flies. It's a blueish green color and not much has formed/spread.

This is in a D.Hydei culture that I setup about a week ago. I setup 4 at the time and the other 3 show no signs.

What is the recommended course of action? These guys have maggots that just started to hatch and don't seem too affected by the mold at this point.

Should I try and save the flies? Should I feed them off? Should I pitch all of it?

If it can be salvaged, I'd like to.

Also, I've read that these flies can clean themselves and if put in a clean container every day for a few days, the flies clean off the mold. Is there any validity to this?

Thanks!
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-Iman

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