Our azureus consume a decent amount of flies per feeding. When we first got them they would eat D. Mel Fruit flies, but they were almost to big for them and tended to prefer springtails.

Fruit Flies - Start off with less than you think you need and watch them eat. If them quickly consume all you put in drop some more in near them. As they get older they will naturally eat more and more. What we do is check the tank in the morning just after the first misting - any fruit flies still in the tank well start running around. If we see a decent amount in there from the yesterdays feeding we feed less today. You always want to add fresh flies to the tank daily and dust with a supplement with each feeding. If you want I can share my dusting rotation with you. We feed out adult Azureus and our to baby Azureus the same size flies. They are a smallish frog so the Hydie would be to big for them.

Springtails. Not only will you need to seed the tank with some when you set it up you will want to have a breeding culture going that you can pull some springs from and dump into the tank from time to time. The breding culture can be setup in a small plastic tub (you can get them from the dollar store) no need to poke holes in the lids. (you can also just buy the Springtail culture kit from Joshs frogs or NeHerp). It will take the breeding culture about 30 days to hit the first population boom. Once that happens you will have a lot of springs. We add more springs to the tanks roughly once a month or more often if we see the frogs decimating springs throughout the weeks. This is all a guessing game as we don't dig through the tank looking to see how many we find. Rule of thumb --- No such thing as to many springs in your tank.

To add a culture of springs to a new tank I setup I just dump the culture strait into the soil before I begin adding hardscape or plants.


Drop the food (Springs or Fruit Flies) in the same spot in the tank eat time you feed. Frogs are smart and will eventually show up to the feeding area when they are hungry and begin searching for food. Frogs do not like to have their food dropped on their head. Its a shame when that happens :/

Paul