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How often should you be feeding a dart frog as froglets?? I will be culturing my own fruit flys but I am wondering how many I should order off the bat until my cultures get going

Thanks!
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Keep them in a nursery tank such as a crtter keeper with the vents sealed off with Saran Wrap and tape, except for the center feeding door. Use either wet paper towels as a substrate, or what I prefer, a wet, pressed down cocoanut fiber base about 2 inches deep that doesn't need to be changed. Put in some cuttings of plants like curly ivy or pothos, hand mist every day. Keep the new babies virtually surrounded with vitamin dusted food-- small dusted fruit flies, some undusted springtails, with lots of humidity, above 80 percent, and around 75 degree temps. I lay a couple of their delivery plastic cups on their sides with some fern or plant leaves and shallow spring water in them. This gives them a place to soak if they need extra water, as well as retire to under the leaves, or even under the cup itself. Don't constantly goose them up to count them or take role call. Just watch, but don't handle or touch. When they seem bold and brave and have good growth, transfer them to their new permanent tank. Coax them back into a small deli- cup, cap it and transfer, uncapping the transfer cup, putting it down on its side, but allowing the frog time to make a decision to hop out of it all by himself before removing it. Transfer each frog in the same gentle way, coaxed into a separate container with minimal goosing. If you just grab them up and dump them in to a new strange habitat, they are going to freak out and they may injure themselves, and/or hide out for days. The new habitat should also be full of food to distract them from any original panic. It the first thing a frog sees after a new world has just been presented to him is something familiar like a fruit fly that stimulates his appetite about his fear, he will adapt swiftly. If you transfer the frogs gently without trauma, they will view their new environment as something to explore, rather than be intimidated by. If they have to challenge other established and older frogs that have probably defined their own territories, the new-comers need all the help they can get before being forced into the established society of guys and gals that don't necessarily want to share what are limited resources.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
5 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
4 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
4 P. terribilis
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus

How many frogs? I got four D. auratus and three cultures. I used one to make another culture because I also got additional cups and media from blackjungle.com. They have been fine for me. When young, I fed evry day, now sometimes I may skip a day here and there, but not more than one day at a time. Maybe I could have gotten less cultures, but it seems to be working for me. Plus, go the safe route. At blackjungle.com the more cultures you want the cheaper they are, 3 went for only a couple dollars more than two. Good luck.