Re: Stranded college student needing advice!
Hey,
So the most inexpensive route to go is culturing fruit flies. OK OK, you said that you don't have time.. Dude culturing fruit flies takes like 5 minutes a week; moreover it is completely affordable, even to a poor student. I make at least ten cultures a week and it does it take about 20 minutes.
"Josh's Frogs has the best feeders in my opinion." Clearly you have not looked at their fly cultures, as they have been covered in mites everytime I have purchased from them. I will buy frogs from them, but not fruitflies. Mites are one of the hardest, and unfortunately most ubiquitous issues when getting into culturing flies. They do not kill the flies, are super small, and are a pain to rid yourself of, so most vendors ignore them because they think that cultures with these parasites are okay since they don't kill the flies. The fact of the matter is that mites WILL lead to unhealthy flies. The flies will not breed as successfully either. The only business I have purchased flies from that did not have mites was snailtails. If you want to go with a tree frog, you can get a thousand crickets sent to you for like $17 shipped (one business I work with is the bug company). Then you just take care of the crickets, which in my opinion is a little harder (a few minutes a day).
If you decide that you do not have a few minutes a week, a frog is probably not for you.
Good luck!
Luke
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