Dart frog care?

[John]

I would like to add that, once you get the hang of it, dart frogs are relatively easy to look after, and certainly the easiest frogs to breed, but "getting the hang of it", particularly for people who don't do a lot of research beforehand, usually involves killing frogs along the way. So please do that research first and understand that you're going to have to culture fruit flies - there's no way around it.

[Crystal6]

I would like to add that, once you get the hang of it, dart frogs are relatively easy to look after, and certainly the easiest frogs to breed, but "getting the hang of it", particularly for people who don't do a lot of research beforehand, usually involves killing frogs along the way. So please do that research first and understand that you're going to have to culture fruit flies - there's no way around it.

Ah, so I CAN'T keep them alive on very young crickets then. Okay.

[John]

You could but it would be a nightmare, and what happens when the cricket culture crashes?

[Crystal6]

You could but it would be a nightmare, and what happens when the cricket culture crashes?

Cricket culture(s) crash more easily then fruit flies? (If they crash I need to run down to my neighbor's and buy some of theirs I guess. I hope they dont' crash considering I have 2 seperate aquariums. I had to make several trips down state for strange reasons so I kept getting large/small crickets from petco. This was about 5 month ago. I now have a bunch of adult, teenages, and newborn crickets growing at varying rates. It's crazy. I'm going to be in trouble in a few years unless a cricket consuming plague hits both aquariums.)

[John]

If you have the time and space for culturing crickets, then by all means do that. I would advise you to go with fruit flies though. At least a fruit fly won't take a bite out of your $100 frog if it's hungry.

[Crystal6]

If you have the time and space for culturing crickets, then by all means do that. I would advise you to go with fruit flies though. At least a fruit fly won't take a bite out of your $100 frog if it's hungry.

Back when I was raising mice for a science experiment I ended up with about 5 10-gallon aquariums. I actually did have some fruit flies from raising crickets though. It's just that they could fly. (Making them useless as a feeder)

My crickets also generally don't like to eat when they've just been put in a new tank. Gutloading them is sorta a pain this way... (I've also never had one drown. O_O I don't know what people are doing wrong but, when they come in contact with a large body of water they tend to back away fearfully. My frog's cage is half and half and yet, not a single death.)

Wow I write too much... Anyways. if I DID get a dart frog I'd get the 25-40 dollar kind. 100 dollars for a frog is a little more then I'm prepared to pay right now. (Unless it's a very rare very enticing frog with amazing durability and life span. But White's don't seem to be that expensive)