[suztor]

I have a pair of D. Tincs Bakhuis

My female eats anything that moves, my male on the other hand does not, he watches the female eat all the flies then sits and picks off springtails. If he gets any flies its by the time they have dusted off.


I'm concerned he's not getting his correct calcium supplementation of do springs offer a good source of that for him... He eats a lot of them.

Input, thoughts, suggestions?

 

[TropicalDartFrogs]

I read somewhere that springtails are more nutritious than fruit flies. Personally my froglets are mainly fed on springtails until they put on some size and they grow up nice and fat like marbles. There is always the danger of over eating however, I find that springtails are a staple in the diet of healthy frogs ( at least smaller ones ). Larger frogs can do well with fruit flies with dusting, wax worms, pinhead crickets with dusting, and Isopods.

 

[Pumilo]

it is important to get calcium/vitamin dust to your frogs and froglets as quickly as possible. You can't rely simply on springtails for that as the calcium to phosphate ratio is off. Calcium dust stays on your flies for many hours...long after it appears to have worn off.
You could always feed in two different places in the viv so your male has a chance to get some right away.

 

[hypostatic]

I read somewhere that springtails are more nutritious than fruit flies.

So there is a blurb in Lötters that mentions that, but Ed thinks its just an anecdotal comment in the book, and there have been no real analyses done directly comparing the nutritional content of both those food sources.

To the OP: How old are the frogs? Is the male still getting enough to eat? Is he showing any signs of stress? Does he look like he's getting skinnier? Do you see the female bullying him or climbing on top of him? These are all things to keep an eye out for.

Also, how are you feeding your frogs food? Are you feeding them only FFs, or both FFs and springs? If so, are you feeding them at the same exact time, or at different times?

Also, I wanted to make a comment that tincs in specific are adapted to eating smaller food items (they have tongues that taper at the end that catch smaller prey items easier), when compared to teribillis which can go after prey items as big as crickets

 

[suztor]

Female is about 1 year 8 months male is 1year and 3months.

He's smaller but not skinny same weight as when I got him. The girl has gotten fatter since I got them (im a bit liberal with the flies) but not obease

The tank is heavily seeded with springs and I feed dusted flies (melos) 2 or 3 times a week. (using repcal but repashy cal plus is in the mail)

They hang out and sleep togeather but I've never seen wrestling or anything. The female seems to show a general disreguard to him and get past him even if it includes pushing him off a branch. But she doesn't chase him down or anything. More like he was between her and a fly and nothing gets between her and a fly.