basically if you have a fly culture already all you need is to buy one of joshsfrogs kits without the flies and start your own off the flies you already have. I personally would go with this kit DELUXE Melanogaster Culture Kit WITHOUT Flies (BIG KIT) - Culturing Kits | Josh's Frogs It has everything you need including mite spray. I suggest getting a sterilite 3 drawer bin. What you do is take some paper towels and spray the mite spray on the paper towels and let it dry. Once it's dry line the inside of each drawer with those paper towels. Now you can store your cultures in there. Change out the paper towels every month. What i do is keep my freshly started ones in the top drawer. after about 1.5 weeks they get moved down to the second drawer. After 1.5 weeks there they go to the bottom (i just pull the drawers out and swap them around. Your culture cups are reusable please don't pitch them after one use. Clean them out good with hot water. Some people use a very diluted bleach solution to clean them but i just use hot water. To clean the lids i run hot water over them and lightly brush the fabric with a toothbrush. You'll get many many many uses out of your cups and lids. Get in the habit of starting cultures once a week. I only have 2 Leucs atm so i only make 1 culture a week, sure its more flies than i need but you never want to be in a bind where you don't have backups in case one or two cultures crash. When my cultures hit 30 days they go in the freezer over night to kill everything in them then thaw them out and dump it in the trash (i dump them in plastic bags i get at grocery store so i can immediately take them out to the dumpster). After 30 days they smell pretty gross. You definitely want to seed your viv with springtails and you don't have to culture them outside the viv as well but it wouldn't hurt to. I bought a starter culture from Joshs which i then moved to a bigger container like he shows in his video. The culture took about 1.5 weeks to really get booming. Once that happened i just dump some in the viv once a week, this way i have some in the tank and some outside the tank as well. Never know when a nearby frogger may need some springs!!! I'm also now culturing Spanish Giant Orange Iso's which i will be adding some adults in my vivs later on to help clean up. Springtails like to eat mold, Giant Oranges will eat frog poo!

Like mentioned, it's pretty silly to buy flies from the pet store. They are way overpriced. You can make cultures for under .50 a pop.

A properly set up viv pretty much takes care of itself. Lights on timers and an automatic mister, and drain makes life easy. I spend less than 30 minutes total a week taking care of one viv. I feed 3 times a week and clean the visible poo and glass once a week.

You'll love the leucs, they are great frogs. They will hunt around on the ground for food and even climb the background. Mine like to hang out on the background alot and when they are hungry they come down to the ground and root through the leaf litter for springs if it wasn't a fly feeding day. One of my leucs started calling today and it's a nice call. Very pleasant if you ask me.

For your first tank keep everything simple. I've made a couple detailed rock wall backgrounds that took alot of time, but really in the end they all look the same once the plants take over. My next one will be much simpler (Great Stuff and cocofiber most likely, or as we call it "dart frog brown" background). If you are geting leucs i suggest making some little ledges on your background because they will climb it.

The one thing i tell anyone looking to get into darts is this. Get good lighting and a mistking misting system. You'll thank me later.