Dendrobates Auratus question

[JeffX]

She said in her post that it is a 2.5 gallon tank. How big is the frog Katelyn?

I was talking about the frog. I couldn't see it and tell if it was a juvenile or adult.

[Tom Highum]

I was talking about the frog. I couldn't see it and tell if it was a juvenile or adult.

Oh sorry. I read that the wrong way. JeffX what do you think of her decorations?

[xkatelynell]

Oh sorry. I read that the wrong way. JeffX what do you think of her decorations?

Nooo! Haha. No decoration comments I need need to get to a petstore and get more. I think I'm going to go today

She said in her post that it is a 2.5 gallon tank. How big is the frog Katelyn?

My frog is the size of your thumb nail. Very small. Though the pet store said it was full grown? I mean, it is a pet store and the possibility of them being wrong is very high :/

So is a 2.5 good sized for a small frog for now? Eventually should I get a 10 or 20 gal? Or should I go for something like an exo terra with more height than width?

Thanks everyone for your responses!

[xkatelynell]

Do you have a steady supply of small prey for your dart frog?

Since I have tree frogs every time i need crickets I grab 2 cultures of fruit flies.

[Tom Highum]

Producing your own cultures is very easy and cheap I recommend it. I wouldn't say you really need a bigger tank maybe a 5.5 but not much more. I do not personally know much about that specific species but I do not believe that hight is a huge factor. I would recommend a few plants like pothos or bromeliads they also help with humidity.

[JeffX]

http://www.frogforum.net/food-feeder...ing-101-a.html

The above is a link to culturing fruit flies. This is really easy. The only problem I had was losing my fruit flies as they jumped out of the jars. You might want to look into culturing your own. Those guys eat alot. You could also order Phoenix worms. I have some extra small ones for my Bumble Bee Toads.

Those guys tend to grow to about an inch and a half. I'd look into getting a bigger tank, and maybe put in a false-bottom. It will help with the humidity.

[xkatelynell]

Tom - I'm going to order some live plants soon from Josh's Frogs

Jeff - I will have to look into culturing sometime soon. What do you use to get the fruit flies out of the jar? or is that a lame question? hah. I still live at home and my mom is like freaking out about the fruit flies in the house so I'm trying to figure out how to keep them here with as little as possible escaping :/

I will look into a bigger tank. Do you suggest one that's wider or taller?

Here's another little picture of him/her. Seems to be doing okay. I'm really glad. I woke up so many times last night to go check on temperature and humidity

[JeffX]

I use an old film canister which I have a little calcium dust in there to dust my fruit flies.

What I do to get mine out is tap on the sides of the containers to get them to fall down to the bottom. Then I try and to put them in the canister. I always do this over the tank so if any fall out which they do they get eaten, and not lost on my floor. I'm still able to dust most of them though.

Flightless fruitflies aren't much of a mess. They won't be flying everywhere so your mom won't have to worry about that.

I'd go with a wider tank than taller for them. They really need a good amount of space. The 2.5 gallon is fine for the time being, but if you can get a bigger tank than I would.

[Kurt]

I use an old film canister which I have a little calcium dust in there to dust my fruit flies.

I used to use a vial, roughly around the same size as your canister, and found it to be too small. Flies would be crushed/smothered by the flies on top of them. So when they got poured into the enclosure many are dead which not good for the enclosure.

I now use jars. I reuse the fruit fly culture jars that I get at Petco. I also use them for culturing more flies after the old cultures are dead and cleaned out.

[Kurt]

I use a funnel to get the fruit flies into the dusting jar, especially if the container they are coming from is wider than the receiving container. I do shake, sometimes violently, the reciving jar and funnel to prevent the fruit flies from climbing out. Once they hit the dust, it becomes very difficult for them to climb upwards.

If fruit flies manage to get away from you, I find they usually walk right back to the culture and try to get back in, which they can't obviously. Let your mom know that they are flightless.