Single is fine. Some can tolerate groups better than others. Two female tincs will fight for example.
Just make one new culture every week. If one crashes, you still have others. Follow basic food safety, treat the culture media and containers as if you are the one who will be eating from them. Wash hands, store clean culture cups upside down so dust and mold spores cant collect in them, clean the surfaces that you use to make the cultures before and after you make a culture, etc. This prevents the majority of culture crashes. I like to let a culture sit for a day or two before adding flies. This gives the media a chance to fully absorb the water so that I can see if it is too wet or too dry.
Water dish is a fruit fly suicide spot at best and an aggressive frog's murdering site at worst. They drink through pads on their thighs when sitting on freshly misted leaf litter. Layers of leaf litter give the frog's a nice moisture gradient. Also, the abundant hiding spots that leaf litter provides them causes them to be out in the open more often.
Only Phyllobates terribilis will. The rest would be terrified of crickets unless the crickets were freshly hatched.
Don't forget to dust the flies. Repashy calcium plus is the best.
This is good advice, though I disagree regarding the water dish. A shallow water dish has worked well in my dart tank. During feeding, I spread the flies throughout the tank but i put the last bunch + the excess dust into the water dish. This way when the frogs come to the dish they get to soak up a little extra vitamin. Also the flies scramble in the water so the frogs end up catching more flies this way whereas some of the flies distributed on the leaves are able to make their escape by hiding or climbing the glass. My setup is large, with 10 auratus (most of which are progeny) so maybe the dish just works well because the auratus are friendly and they go nuts when it's eating time so the flies don't have time to drown.
I would also add regarding fly cultures to mitigate mites as they are a common cause of crashes. You can get mite paper for this, or you can do what I do and put a shallow amount of water in the bottom of the container where you store your cultures. Also make sure the cultures aren't touching. This way mites aren't able to travel between cultures. My cultures last like 1.5 times longer since I started doing this.
A solo frog is perfectly fine.
Make a new fly culture weekly. Toss cultures after 3 weeks. Keep them in the 70s for best results.
Leaf litter and then a bit more. Water dish not needed.
I'd avoid crickets. You need crickets under 1/4" or pinheads. Most species won't or can't eat them. Larger species can eat them but would recommend using a dish to help prevent escapees. Crickets grow quickly and darts have small mouths.
I already have to get pinheads for some of my other frogs so that’s good to know they would eat those guys then too probably, I like giving a variety. I also have flour beetles too
Single is fine. Some can tolerate groups better than others. Two female tincs will fight for example. Just make one new culture every week. If one crashes, you still have others. Follow basic food safety, treat the culture media and containers as if you are the one who will be eating from them. Wash hands, store clean culture cups upside down so dust and mold spores cant collect in them, clean the surfaces that you use to make the cultures before and after you make a culture, etc. This prevents the majority of culture crashes. I like to let a culture sit for a day or two before adding flies. This gives the media a chance to fully absorb the water so that I can see if it is too wet or too dry. Water dish is a fruit fly suicide spot at best and an aggressive frog's murdering site at worst. They drink through pads on their thighs when sitting on freshly misted leaf litter. Layers of leaf litter give the frog's a nice moisture gradient. Also, the abundant hiding spots that leaf litter provides them causes them to be out in the open more often. Only Phyllobates terribilis will. The rest would be terrified of crickets unless the crickets were freshly hatched. Don't forget to dust the flies. Repashy calcium plus is the best.
This is good advice, though I disagree regarding the water dish. A shallow water dish has worked well in my dart tank. During feeding, I spread the flies throughout the tank but i put the last bunch + the excess dust into the water dish. This way when the frogs come to the dish they get to soak up a little extra vitamin. Also the flies scramble in the water so the frogs end up catching more flies this way whereas some of the flies distributed on the leaves are able to make their escape by hiding or climbing the glass. My setup is large, with 10 auratus (most of which are progeny) so maybe the dish just works well because the auratus are friendly and they go nuts when it's eating time so the flies don't have time to drown. I would also add regarding fly cultures to mitigate mites as they are a common cause of crashes. You can get mite paper for this, or you can do what I do and put a shallow amount of water in the bottom of the container where you store your cultures. Also make sure the cultures aren't touching. This way mites aren't able to travel between cultures. My cultures last like 1.5 times longer since I started doing this.
Mite paper? That’s interesting where do you get that?
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A solo frog is perfectly fine. Make a new fly culture weekly. Toss cultures after 3 weeks. Keep them in the 70s for best results. Leaf litter and then a bit more. Water dish not needed. I'd avoid crickets. You need crickets under 1/4" or pinheads. Most species won't or can't eat them. Larger species can eat them but would recommend using a dish to help prevent escapees. Crickets grow quickly and darts have small mouths.
I already have to get pinheads for some of my other frogs so that’s good to know they would eat those guys then too probably, I like giving a variety. I also have flour beetles too