Flies in my water?!

[ApriliaRufo]

I check on Apollo once every 2 days to make sure all is ok in his tank while he hibernates. Today I checked to see about 20 dead litte flies in his water bowl, they haven't been there before and I changed his water yesterday morning. What should I do? I replaced the water. Should I wake him back up, replace his cypress mulch? It's only about a month old cypress, so I'm trying to figure out how they got there. Some strange looking bug was in my Pacman's cage yesterday but before I could get it out, Krumm smashed it down his gullet like anything else.

 

[AB^]

Fruitflies?

 

[COWHER]

do you feed fruit? my tegu if he doesn't eat all the fruit he buries it and i have to go find it. maybe it attracted fruit flies? i would clean the cypress. but thats just my guess hope it helps :? :roll: :lol: :lol:

 

[redtail2426]

Sometimes my cypress comes with little tiny eggs in it I mean super tiny and they are the little fly eggs almost like a fruit fly or something they are super small and what happens is while my cypress is drying out in my cage they will hatch and I will have a few flying around my enclosure for a week or two but once my cypress dries completely out they die off and they are no threat to my tegu this might be what you have in your cypress.

 

[ApriliaRufo]

Fruitflies?

Looks like it. Apollo doesn't eat fruit and if he did he doesn't eat it in his tank. I really don't wanna wake him cuz I want him to bump uglies with a red at some point.

 

[AB^]

Could be just common gnats, no big deal

 

[VARNYARD]

I would not worry about the gnats, however, was the bug you speak of a black beetle?

 

[DaveDragon]

We get fruit flies.