40G Build Diary f/ Poison Dart Frogs

[J Teezy]

Fruit Flies are pretty easy to culture if you can read and follow directions. When i first started i bought a starter kit from Josh's frogs. Think it was the Deluxe Melo kit with flies. I use a sterilite 3 drawer bin for storing my cultures. Oldest on the bottom, newest in very top and rest in middle. I use the jurassimite spray to spray on paper towels that i put in each drawer to set the cultures on. I change this out on the 1st of every month. Throw out old cultures once they are 4 weeks old (i freeze the culture and then recycle my cups and lids). As mentioned leaf litter should be a must as well as seeding the tank with springtails. I didn't have springtails before i got my frogs so i ordered some from josh's and moved them into a bigger container to start a colony. After a couple weeks the colony had exploded so then once a week i add a few hundred springs to the viv. My viv has plenty of springs in it now and my colony is huge. Water features aren't really necessary and i'd steer away from one in your first build. Sure they look cool but a lot of trouble can come from them. Get an mistking, you'll thank me later. put your lights on a timer. Get some leaf litter (did we already mention this =) ). Get your isopod cultures now so you can start them producing so you will have plenty when the tank is ready to be seeded with them. Along with springtails, Giant Oranges are good tank janitors and PDFs wont eat the adults because they are too big for them.