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What beginner dart frog can i get that will readily eat crickets and the occasional fruitflys and be at least 2 inches at smallest and can i have all males together b/c i don't really want any eggs.

Thanks

It sounds like you are looking for Phyllobates terribilis or P. bicolor. Terribilis, in particular, will be able to eat the larger crickets when adults, but you'll still have to raise fruit flies for them as froglets unless you have a steady source of pinhead crix. Note, however, that male terribilis are notorious for being loud callers if that matters.
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Homer W. Faucett III, esq.
Purveyor of Trivialities and Fine Nonsense

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Fruit flies are the mainstay for darts. They are a lot easier and faster to raise than crickets, which darts will only take as pinheads. Pinheads are also expensive to buy, at least from my neck of the woods. For froglets you would need the smaller melanogaster flies and spingtails, which are also easy to raise. When they get bigger, you can try the hydeii flies, that are larger- just a bit slower to raise, but not by much. For about 40 frogs, I have at least 30 fly cultures going at once, in a cupboard. Fortunately, they don't need light. I feed the frogs from the active cultures, and start a new one whenever one is in demise and I throw it away. I feed my thumbnails and baby frogs the smaller flies and springtails, and the larger ones the hydeii. In summer, I net them "field plankton," mostly leaf hoppers, gnats and whatever is small enough, give them leaves infected with aphids, which they lap up like chocolate cake, or candy. No need to worry about infecting your plants with aphids. Aphids are fairly plant genera specific, and even if they weren't the frogs wouldn't let them establish.

Patty
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

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