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Hi,
I don't keep arrow frogs but I am having some problems with fruit flys in my hatchling leaf tail gecko enclosers. How do you guys keep the fruit flies in the cage? Mine keep crawling out of the screen on top.
Thanks,
Matt

Hi,
Well, you could try putting some fruit in the bottom of the cage, and that can help keep them down in. When I have baby praying mantis's hatch out, they have to eat fruit flies too. I normally just tape a long piece of paper towel to the bottom of the screen top, and that will keep them in. Im not sure how well that is going to work with geckos though :/ (because of the heat lamps, and then there is airflow and humidity.. etc.)

Thanks,
Andrew
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I put weather stripping around the seal of my screen and have plastic wrap over the top.

As someone else mentioned, a slice of orange or piece of apple will keep them occupied, which is what I do in the sagebrush lizard tank, which has only a screen and really can't be sealed without creating too much humidity for these little desert lizards. You'll still get a lot of escaped fruit flies, no matter what you do, but they are harmless enough. They are especially prone to drowning in one's glass of wine, which is offensive to squeamish guests, but we've become innured and merely regard them as hors d'oeuvres.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

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