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What are your all's techniques on feeding without getting the vitamin powder in the tank? I can't seem to get it down and I just keep dropping more and more inside. Also, how can you make sure you're feeding enough?

Thanks
b

I just dump my fly/vitamin mix in the back corner of my tanks under some leaves (so the vitamins don't kill the moss or just accumulate where I can see it. Once every week or so, I'll drop a glass of water where I drop flies and that usually absorbs the vitamins and washes them into the substrate.

As far as how much to feed, If you have see flies in the tank the next day cut back. If you don't see any flies in the tank the next day, increase feeding. No exact science. Heat, humidity, age of frog, species, diet of flies, etc. all play into how much to feed.
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Josh Willard
www.joshsfrogs.com

I "jump" or tap the flies out into a tall plastic deli-cup with a pinch of vitamins in it, whorl this around to coat the flies. When feeding, I put this an an angle and the flies will start to climb the lower side. As they do this, I sort of shake the container back and forth gently, so the excess powder falls back to the bottom, while the flies keep climbing to the edge, and as the flies reach the edge, tap them over the edge and into the tank. It's just a technique you can learn, but takes more patience than Josh's solution. I do the same as he does however, and rinse off the plants and substrate that any incidental powder begins to cover. As he says, if you can still see flies in the tank, you don't need to feed again and can skip a day.
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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

I do pretty much the same thing. The flies seem to fall quicker than the powder, so I just tilt the container a bit and lightly tap and they fall out before the powder reaches the edge.
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~ Vamppire
Queens, New York City