Planning on keeping Poison Dart Frogs need advice

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Sorry man, but you are going to have to deal with live foods. Fruit flies are probably going to be the easiest to breed because they are fast breeding and dont smell as bad as the crickets. They also wont overgrow as the crickets would. Because their darts, they have the smaller mouths than most frogs, so if you dont want to deal with breeding insects, maybe try tree frogs or something else where you can just buy your average run of the mill pet store crickets.
 
I agree with the above post unless you are willing to culture your own FF or have a place you can buy them from( which might get expensive) I would not even think about Dart frogs
I have kept and bred darts for the past 4 years. i was happy to have an animal that does not eat crickets. FF are a breeze compared to crickets.
Some darts can eat pinheads but onyl when they reach adults size. I do not think there is any darts that can be raised from the froglet stage on only crickets.Can I ask what kind you were thinking of getting?
 
kearth;1638201; said:
Can I ask what kind you were thinking of getting?
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im not planning to yet but i want a D.Leucomelas. im just looking into the things i have to be responsible for if i get one. nothing serious yet.

do you think this would work. im bein serious too. what if i found a way to easily tie a piece of prepared food to a string of something and wiggle it to make it seem like its alive. and i managed to do this everyday easily. serious question.
 
It is not going to work. To find something prepared small enough that would be nutritionally good for them and them to be able to tie it to string and get them to eat it that many times a day. It will NOT work. Then what if they eat the string.
Dart are semi easy to keep as long as you have the right setup and the correct food source. Culturing FF is not that hard and going to be about the only way you can keep dart frogs.
Do any kind of reading on them and you will see that prepared non live food is not an option.
My leucs eat about 40-50 flies a day each.
 
popcorn1;1641495; said:
im not planning to yet but i want a D.Leucomelas. im just looking into the things i have to be responsible for if i get one. nothing serious yet.

do you think this would work. im bein serious too. what if i found a way to easily tie a piece of prepared food to a string of something and wiggle it to make it seem like its alive. and i managed to do this everyday easily. serious question.
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It wont work the frogs wont go near it but just to show you how much they eat if it worked you would have to tie ever so delicate 50 tiny pieces of food more or less than do this one after the other to get them to eat.

I know what you mean as your idea works with many toads ,frogs and bigger salamanders,etc but it wont work with darts
 
kearth;1641894; said:
It is not going to work. To find something prepared small enough that would be nutritionally good for them and them to be able to tie it to string and get them to eat it that many times a day. It will NOT work. Then what if they eat the string.
Dart are semi easy to keep as long as you have the right setup and the correct food source. Culturing FF is not that hard and going to be about the only way you can keep dart frogs.
Do any kind of reading on them and you will see that prepared non live food is not an option.
My leucs eat about 40-50 flies a day each.
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I feed my mantellas fruit flies-pin head crickets I used springtails before but had no idea they could be cultured thanks I am going to read how to do it before never considered it
 
Louie
I can give tell you how to culture them real easy.
Buy a culture ( if you need one let me know. Pay shipping and I will send you one)
I culture mine on charcoal. I use sterilte shoebox containers. You can also cocbark or eco earth. Anything that you would use for susbtrate you can use to culture them. Dump in the exsisting culture that you have. Put the lid on. Twice a week i feed them. You can feed them either fish flakes, brewers yeast, zucchini, mushrooms ( mine do best on mushrooms) and in a few weeks the container should be booming with springs.
Them wehn it comes time to feed just spary the culture with water and dump the water into the viv. They float on water so it makes it real easy to feed that way and then continue how you were doing it before and it should keep producing for you.
Hope I explained that ok.
 
im not gonna mess with dart frogs then. but just curious. i read about dusting fruit flies.
theyre non flying so what is there to dust regularly?
 
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