Gold flies

Gold Flies – Fresh, Nutritious, and Simple

Gold flies are among the most popular live foods in the terrarium hobby. They are ideal for jumping spiders starting at about FH5 through FH7, mantises, and many tarantula hatchlings. At the same time, their flight patterns stimulate your animals’ natural hunting instincts, providing them with species-appropriate activity.

The gold flies are delivered as pinky maggots and pupae. This allows you to decide for yourself when the flies should hatch, and ensures you always have fresh live food on hand.

Long shelf life and easy to store

A major advantage of pinky maggots is that they are easy to store. They develop very slowly in the refrigerator and therefore remain usable for several weeks.

When you need food, simply take the desired number of maggots and place them in the terrarium using tweezers. This allows you to adjust the amount of food precisely to your animals’ needs and avoid unnecessary waste.

Flexible Feeding

Not every animal eats right away. This is exactly where Pinky maggots offer a decisive advantage.

If your pet eats the maggot right away, it gets a high-quality meal immediately. If, on the other hand, it isn’t hungry, the maggot will develop into a gold fly after a few days. This gives your pet a second chance to eat later on, without you having to feed it again.

This method has proven particularly effective for jumping spiders and mantises.

Also suitable during the molting phase

Many owners remove live food from the terrarium before a molt. This is not necessary for goldflies and pinky grubs.

Both the maggots and the hatched flies are considered harmless and pose no danger to your animals, even during sensitive molting phases. This means you can provide your pets with a natural food source at any time.

Keeping Goldflies Alive Longer

Hatchling gold flies can be easily cared for for some time. This keeps them active longer and makes them available as food for your animals over a longer period.

Suitable options for this include, for example:

• Honey Water
• Sugar water

This extends the flies’ lifespan and, at the same time, keeps them attractive to prey for longer.

Suitable for

Goldflies are ideal for many terrarium animals, including:

• Jumping spiders from FH5 to FH7
• L4/L5 mantles
• Baby tarantulas
• Small Geckos
• Frogs
• Other insect-eating terrarium animals

Advantages at a glance

• Natural Live Food
• Delivered as Pinky maggots
• Will keep in the refrigerator for several weeks
• Easy dosing
• Stimulates the natural hunting instinct
• Flies only develop in warm weather
• No problems during molting
• Ideal for jumping spiders, mantises, and tarantulas

Suitable accessories for your setup

For easy and successful feeding, we recommend the following:

• Repto Cricket Shaker – makes it easy to dust your live feed with vitamin and mineral powder.
• Arcadia Earthpro RevitaliseD3 – a high-quality mineral and vitamin powder for dusting your feed animals.
• Feeding Tweezers – allows for the precise placement of individual Pinky maggots in the terrarium.
• Magnetic Feeders – provides newly hatched goldflies with honey or sugar water.
• BraPlast container with gauze lid – ideal for storing and rearing hatched gold flies.

This makes feeding particularly easy, while ensuring your animals receive high-quality, natural live food at all times.

Conclusion

Gold flies are a versatile and high-quality food source for numerous terrarium inhabitants. Since they are shipped as pinky maggots, they can be stored for weeks and fed as needed at any time. At the same time, they allow for a particularly natural feeding experience, as the maggots develop into flight-capable gold flies when needed. This provides jumping spiders, mantises, and many other terrarium animals with a varied and species-appropriate food source.