Bumblebee toad or fire belly toad?

[Bumbleluv]

df92484 - I am having a problem finding small food. I have 2 toads but they don't eat a lot. I bought a jar of flightless fruitflies but it produced so many, so fast my toads wasn't eating them fast enough and I noticed they developed wings so I couldn't use them. I can't find pinhead crickets and small crickets are too big for them (they back away from the small crickets). Do you have other feeding suggestions?

[df92484]

If you only have a few toads, a fruit fly colony will always outproduce what your animals can eat. I cull my fly cultures by feeding the fruit flies to my fish (tetras love them). My suggestion would be to purchase some supplies to create your own cultures from a specialty dealer, I like Joshsfrogs.com. In my experience fruit flies are the most successful food item for bumblebee toads, and they are easily reproduced. If your culture begins to grow mold, or if your flies grow wings you may have to start a new culture with fresh flies.

[Poly]

Most fruit fly cultures (and medium) come with mold inhibitors, so that shouldn't be an issue.

[badkelpie]

df92484 - I am having a problem finding small food. I have 2 toads but they don't eat a lot. I bought a jar of flightless fruitflies but it produced so many, so fast my toads wasn't eating them fast enough and I noticed they developed wings so I couldn't use them. I can't find pinhead crickets and small crickets are too big for them (they back away from the small crickets). Do you have other feeding suggestions?

if you go to Welcome to Gulf Coast Crickets -, you can buy 1000 baby lateralis roaches for $10 (plus $10 for shipping). They are the size of pinheads. I've had mine for about a month, and still have many that are itty bitty. The biggest ones are probably 1/4 inch, or slightly bigger. I'm waiting for them to get big enough for my fire bellies