Phorid/ Fungus gnat solution

[Mack&Cass]

I don't know whether this has been posted already but as its useful for just about everyone on this site i'll say it here
I came up with a really good way to get rid of fungus gnats in my cobalt blue setup (although it would work for just about any flying pests bigger than mites)
I had just set up the cobalt's tank and the high initial humidity caused some mold growth which attracted the gnats. I threw a cellar spider (don't know the species but down south they call them daddy-long legs) and within a week it had built a massive web in an upper corner of the tank and decimated the fruit flys as well as some pinhead crickets that had hatched in the tank. The spider even gave birth to about fifty young.
By the way this probably wouldnt work to well with an arboreal T but just about anything else thats to big for the spider to eat

 

[Rochelle]

You're on to a good thing here, hon! I had horrible problems with phorids for awhile..but finally introduced several "cellar spiders" into my hisser tank and have seen a drastic reduction of flies.
Since then I have seen the cellar spiders move to some of the other roach tanks and there's hardly a phorid to be found!

 

[EDED]

damn, thats a good idea.

i was relying on fly tapes...now i must collect some in the basement somewhere.

 

[REAL]

Thats neat and all but aren't their webs a bit messy and then you have to think about those lil things running around your house maybe?

I know they're practically harmless but....sounds messy lol.

 

[desertdweller]

Fabulous!!!!! Thank-you. Now I'm off hunting for one too!

They can't hurt my H lividum? He's a big boy-just hooked and lookin' for a date.