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·What do you feed your food? Please be prepared, because if you say "nothing," or "Oh, I dust," I am going to tell you flat out that you are wrong.
I recently posted a topic called "is what we think we know..." and this goes right in line with it.
If you are keeping dart frogs, it is your responsibility to not only feed them as diverse a diet as you can (read that as to the best of your ability. If field sweeping is not an option for you, and crickets are too expensive, at least beg borrow or steal a springtail culture) but feed the diet a GOOD diet.
I know that the topic of fruit fly media comes up often, but it is always about what produces the best.
Y'know, I am not concerned in the least with what produces the best, so much as I am with what comes out.
Currently, there are 11 ingredients in my fruit fly mix. 11. And many of those 11 have many vitamins and minerals in them naturally. I believe that in the interest of keeping good frogs, along with promoting longevity, and good in season breeding, comes providing them with the best food. That means feeding your food.
To put it succintly, potato flakes and applesauce is not cutting it. Raise your standards from numbers to quality.
Also, before I start hearing it from people, Biological supply houses are not interested in selling you a media that is going to produce lots and lots of flies that are healthy, they are interested in selling you the cheapest media for them that is going to allow your university or study group study the genetics and life of the common fruit fly. That is it.
Let's see what kind of ingredients and sources for these ingredients we can come up with to raise the standard for our foods food. (And no, I do not mean vegetables and fruit.)
I recently posted a topic called "is what we think we know..." and this goes right in line with it.
If you are keeping dart frogs, it is your responsibility to not only feed them as diverse a diet as you can (read that as to the best of your ability. If field sweeping is not an option for you, and crickets are too expensive, at least beg borrow or steal a springtail culture) but feed the diet a GOOD diet.
I know that the topic of fruit fly media comes up often, but it is always about what produces the best.
Y'know, I am not concerned in the least with what produces the best, so much as I am with what comes out.
Currently, there are 11 ingredients in my fruit fly mix. 11. And many of those 11 have many vitamins and minerals in them naturally. I believe that in the interest of keeping good frogs, along with promoting longevity, and good in season breeding, comes providing them with the best food. That means feeding your food.
To put it succintly, potato flakes and applesauce is not cutting it. Raise your standards from numbers to quality.
Also, before I start hearing it from people, Biological supply houses are not interested in selling you a media that is going to produce lots and lots of flies that are healthy, they are interested in selling you the cheapest media for them that is going to allow your university or study group study the genetics and life of the common fruit fly. That is it.
Let's see what kind of ingredients and sources for these ingredients we can come up with to raise the standard for our foods food. (And no, I do not mean vegetables and fruit.)