crickets

[pa.walt]

froggurl just go to the next white plains reptile/herp show. i think the next one is in july or later this month. i'm sure you will find cheaper flys than $10. since you do have flys just use one of the fly medium recipes out there and start a culture. there are some easy recipes and some complicated ones.
as for the containers my one friend use to sell them in "snapple" bottles.

[Derek Benson]

I'm not sure if I agree with you Scott. I feed all of my frogs (non-dart) crickets. And have for as lnog as I've kept them. They aren't the giant black ones with a tough exoskeleton. Young brown crickets are about as soft as a wax worm. The brown juvenile crickets are what I feed. When they develop their "wings" they are put into the breeder tank and not fed. Could you please tell us more on this issue.

[Scott]

Derek,

How many Dart Frogs do you keep?

Most of the treefrogs (not all) are larger than PDFs. I do not know if this is an advantage or not... but it would seem to me it would be (in regards to digesting crix).

I've only ever read about two causes of prolapse: 1) parasites 2) too much fiber (ie chitin) in their diet.

I just do not recommend it as 100% of the diet (or even 50%) for Poison Dart Frogs.

Then again - I've never had to deal with a prolapsed frog.

s

Originally Posted by pa.walt

froggurl just go to the next white plains reptile/herp show. i think the next one is in july or later this month. i'm sure you will find cheaper flys than $10. since you do have flys just use one of the fly medium recipes out there and start a culture. there are some easy recipes and some complicated ones.
as for the containers my one friend use to sell them in "snapple" bottles.

Yeah...I plan on going as long as I dont have to work my boss tends to let me know last minute :evil:

[Christian]

So criket or not recommanded for dart frog??????

In nature they eat ant... and I thing that they body are much more hard that really tiny criquet....


So I use 50% of criquet and 50% ff....

So.... I am a bad person with they frog or not.????????

I don't have dart but mantella so.....

[Derek Benson]

Derek,

How many Dart Frogs do you keep?

Where did this come from? I have 3 dart frogs, all of which eat crickets and fruit flies. Aren't you supposed to add variety to their diets by offering fruit flies, crickets, termites, etc?

[Ryan]

So far i have had no problems with crickets! The babies havent developed much of an exoskeleton so its not that biig of a problem.

what are potatoe flakes?

[Derek Benson]

Flakes of Potato used in homemade fruit fly media recipes.

[Rain_Frog]

Wait, Froggurl, where are you located? I didn't waste money buying expensive medium and expensive shipping for cultures. I just went to Petco and bought a fresh culture for $5. You really don't get enough out of them, so I made homemade medium and used old water bottles for containers. We buy bulk packages of bottled water, but I don't pay for it. I cut a large square on the side of bottled water and tape a piece of paper towel for good air circulation. I'm sure you could probably order fruit fly containers for a cheap price too. I put a few tablespoons of homemade medium and stuff the bottles with plastic from shopping bags, ziploc bags, etc, in place of excelsior moss. It works well, the larvae crawl up and cover it when they will pupate. Plus, brewer's yeast for max production. I then leave it in a warm place in the basement in indirect lighting, and wait about a week, and I will get hundreds of them. In fact, I have WAY too many, and if you ever saw Kole, you would notice he is by far the fattest tinc you ever saw. He looks like a blueberry when he climbs the glass :lol: