HELP! Bringing home darts....

[whiteroses91]

Uh well today, an animal rescue called me and had dart frogs and needed to get rid of them. So I went and got them. There were 8 frogs, 2 tads, and as i was leaving we noticed eggs in the bottom of the container. So...I have food and a beautiful set up...what do I do with the tads and eggs? I havent done any research on breeding yet.


They are all at home in my tank. It's a 29 but were planning on setting up a 90 for them.

[bshmerlie]

John has a care sheet on the Imitating Dart Frog and also an article on how to build a Dart Frog Terrarium. There is also a great article on Fruit Fly culturing. Those should get you started. Why don't you post some pictures of what you have so we can help you further.

[John]

For taking care of tadpoles:

http://www.frogforum.net/breeding-eg...ding-food.html

[kevinpilon1]

You want the temps in the 70's daytime w near 100% humidity. Many people just seal their tanks completely and only air them out for a little bit during feeding. Definitely check out how to culture fruit flies as you'll need em. It is quite simple but can seem to be a hassle at first.

dendroboard.com is another forum and is dedicated completely to dart frogs. Pretty much everything there is to know about darts is there check it out!

What's the species? That will affect how you deal with the tads.

If you wanna get rid of a couple of the group I could help

good luck!

[kevinpilon1]

Could we see the set up? You said it was beautiful that sparked my fancy.....

[whiteroses91]

Thanks everyone, the new comers have made in through their first night. I've had the tank set up for probably 6 months or something. I couldn't decide on a frog, so it stayed just a little planted tank. Everyone is very lively this morning, but I can not find the tadpoles in my little pond...I'm hoping all is well with them. At the moment, my temp is 77 and my humidity is 95%(which is has only once gotten higher than this, so I hope this will be alright.)
I got a container of already started cultures, so I'll have to get my practice in. But I do have another question, the guy the rescue got the frogs from said to feed them about 30 flies each? From my research, they only need about 3-5 each? Probably just a miscomunication?

Because we have so many frogs, we have officially decided to set up the 90 gallon tank as a frog tank, so within the next two days I hope to get that up and running.