Food Culturing/breeding ???????

[Meefloaf]

are crickets hard to keep a culture going ?

[demon amphibians]

are crickets hard to keep a culture going ?

they are on the harder side to culture not to mention they are escape artists. compared to isopods and roaches i would say they are much harder and breed much less. but then again breeding roaches and isopods are not difficult what so ever.

[Meefloaf]

so maybe i should buy into crickets and keep them in a lil enclosure, but culture some roaches and isopods ?

i'm looking at getting 2-3 milkies (got a 60x45x60) so i dont want to be culturing something that will because i dont need them etc

[demon amphibians]

Isopods would be more along the lines of what would be useful to you concerning milkfrogs. But dubia's would also work quite nice because they come in all different sizes. But in your case you could only use the small ones. If you go with dubia's you will only need a small colony. with isopods I would get a somewhat larger colony to start with. Going with either of these or both i think you would be quite satisfied with the results. I personnally avoid crickets and meal worms. Crickets stink, eat each other, die fast and make noise whilst having much less nutritional value as isopods and roaches. Meal worms have a poor nutritional value and a hard exosekeltion that may cause digestive complications with your frogs. Don't get me wrong crickets would work just fine for your frogs. I am just saying that roaches and Isopods are better. And just stay away from mealworms completely.

[Meefloaf]

trust me, loving the idea of avoiding crickets, remember as a child them living under the floorboards aha. cheers for the info man, think that is the road i'll go down

[Meefloaf]

found these

Pallid Cockroach
(Phoetalia pallida)
A small, soft-bodied species from Central/South America. Adults grow to around 15mm, . Theya re livebearers and the nymphs are very small 3mm and taken by medium to large dartfrogs. The adults are devoured by many amphibians and larger day geckos.

[JeffreH]

Pallids are a great feeder species - and you won't run into any problems with adults being too large to feed to your frogs that you may otherwise encounter with other common feeder cockroach species (Blaberus, B. dubia, etc.) I would highly recommend taking the plunge and picking up a culture of them for your frogs... but keep in mind the adults and nymphs can climb smooth surfaces like plastic and glass so you will need to keep a thin layer of petroleum jelly or teflon to keep them from climbing up and out of their bin.