Dart Frogs and feeding

[JeffX]

Some day I'd like to get some Dart Frogs. The food supply would be the most difficult for me, and I was trying to think of alternative ways to get them food instead of solely using fruit flies or culturing them myself.

So I had this idea of setting up the tank and putting in some female crickets in there, and letting them lay their eggs and removing them later. Assuming I kept doing this, and I could figure out the time frame from laying the eggs to them hatching could this supply say two or three Dart Frogs with an adequate food source?

[Kurt]

The problem with that is that crickets alone are not nutritionally sound. Thats why we dust them with supplements. Darts can easily suffer frog a vitamin A deficency and waste away. So dusting is very important with these guys, maybe more so than it is with other frogs.

Culturing fruit flies isn't all that hard. Also you can buy small crickets. I bought a 1000 count case of 1/8" last week.

[JeffX]

The problem with that is that crickets alone are not nutritionally sound. Thats why we dust them with supplements. Darts can easily suffer frog a vitamin A deficency and waste away. So dusting is very important with these guys, maybe more so than it is with other frogs.

Culturing fruit flies isn't all that hard. Also you can buy small crickets. I bought a 1000 count case of 1/8" last week.

I didn't even think about dusting them.

[Tom Highum]

Small Dart frogs and babies love springtails. And they are considered easy to culture. The darts will probably die if you forget to dust their food

[Kurt]

The darts will probably die if you forget to dust their food

Probably? I can practically gurantee that to happen if their food is not dusted.

[nx2ured]

Culturing fruit flies is a necessary evil if you want to keep darts as is dusting.

[Tom Highum]

Springtails are good they sell them and culturing media at
Fruit flies, Springtails & Rice Flour Beetles