This is a discussion on Dart Frogs and feeding within the Beginner Discussion forums, part of the Dart Frogs (Dendrobatidae) & Mantellas (Mantellidae) category; Some day I'd like to get some Dart Frogs. The food supply would be the most difficult for me, and ...
Dart Frogs and feeding Some day I'd like to get some Dart Frogs. The food supply would be the most difficult for me, and I was trying to think of alternative ways to get them food instead of solely using fruit flies or culturing them myself.
So I had this idea of setting up the tank and putting in some female crickets in there, and letting them lay their eggs and removing them later. Assuming I kept doing this, and I could figure out the time frame from laying the eggs to them hatching could this supply say two or three Dart Frogs with an adequate food source?
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Re: Dart Frogs and feeding The problem with that is that crickets alone are not nutritionally sound. Thats why we dust them with supplements. Darts can easily suffer frog a vitamin A deficency and waste away. So dusting is very important with these guys, maybe more so than it is with other frogs.
Culturing fruit flies isn't all that hard. Also you can buy small crickets. I bought a 1000 count case of 1/8" last week.
Kurt Kunze
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Re: Dart Frogs and feeding Springtails are good they sell them and culturing media at
Fruit flies, Springtails & Rice Flour Beetles
Re: Dart Frogs and feeding I didn't even think about dusting them.Originally Posted by Kurt
Re: Dart Frogs and feeding Small Dart frogs and babies love springtails. And they are considered easy to culture. The darts will probably die if you forget to dust their food
Re: Dart Frogs and feeding Probably? I can practically gurantee that to happen if their food is not dusted.
Kurt Kunze
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Re: Dart Frogs and feeding Culturing fruit flies is a necessary evil if you want to keep darts as is dusting.
Re: Dart Frogs and feeding Although variety is best, it is possible to raise many dart frog species just on crickets and without fruit flies. Even the smaller species will eat crickets if they are young enough.
Re: Dart Frogs and feeding If I came up with a contraption that the crickets can get in and out of with the vitamine dust inside, but the frogs can not get into inside the terrarium will that work?
Re: Dart Frogs and feeding Fruit flies and springtails are extremely easy to breed and feed. In the beginning get premixed FF media and use that till you are comfortable. Other alternatives are pea aphids, bean beetles, termites, and for larger darts roaches.
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Re: Dart Frogs and feeding Fruit flies are very easy to breed in large quantities, I used to breed thousands when I was teaching genetics, the problem was stopping them!
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