Culturing Isopods

[bshmerlie]

Okay, I've got some baby D. Ventrimaculatus (FG). They are two months out of the water and they are very small. I already have the tank very well seeded with springtails and would like to include some isopods. What type do you recommend for baby thumbnails? I would like to add as much variety to their diet as I can. I put in the dropsophilia melanogaster fruit flies but I don't think I've actually seen the frogs eat them. I could be wront though. I've got an icky growing piece of bannana in there which is now home to many crawling things. Ewww....

[dtfleming]

They will eat the flies. Doubt they will eat Iso just yet dwarf white would be a good choice

[berksmike]

They eat some of the very juvenile dwarf whites but best stick to springs and flies.
If you think the flies are too big you can always set up a few fly cultures with only small amounts of medium to get stunted flies which they may take more readily