New Shots Including 2nd Hobby

[SeaSlug]

2nd Hobby is my pair of Bumble Bee Poisen Dart Frogs

 

[pakora]

lol very nice. is it true you can get poisoned just by touching them? I heard people licked them and had acid trips or something like that! Please educate me!

 

[SeaSlug]

Because they are not collected from the Rain Forest ( they are bred ) , there poison on there skin is very little to none , although you don't want to put it to the test by handling them and NEVER lick them , that would only make you sick . In the wild they eat a wide range of insects , this is what gives them there poison , where as in captivity they are feed live flightless fruit flys that are dusted in calcium powder . There colors are awesome . The only draw back is unlike salt water fish they don't do well if you mix different colors/breeds of Dart Frogs , and you have to culture (breed) there live food .

 

[pakora]

Very very interesting second hobby nonetheless! How did you find out about such frogs!

Because they are not collected from the Rain Forest ( they are bred ) , there poison on there skin is very little to none , although you don't want to put it to the test by handling them and NEVER lick them , that would only make you sick . In the wild they eat a wide range of insects , this is what gives them there poison , where as in captivity they are feed live flightless fruit flys that are dusted in calcium powder . There colors are awesome . The only draw back is unlike salt water fish they don't do well if you mix different colors/breeds of Dart Frogs , and you have to culture (breed) there live food .

 

[SeaSlug]

I was at a reptile show when I first spoted them........one look at the colors and I was hooked . Then it was just a matter of picking which color and building a terrarium for them to live in.

 

[pakora]

Are there parameters to keep track of like with saltwater? (sorry for all the questions lol)

 

[SeaSlug]

Nah..........very easy to take care of , almost no maintence . Makes reef keeping look like rocket science in comparison .Breeding there live food is the hardest part and if you want to there are online stores that will ship your cultures to you on a regular basis . But that meathod can get costly vs culturing your own flys .

 

[cparka23]

I love the dart frogs, but culturing fruit flies doesn't appeal to me much.

Nice one you got there. If I DID take the plunge into yet another hobby, it would be with those azureus frogs. Those are unbelievably cool.

 

[Raptor]

Very cool, I thought about them, But the darn fly cultures stink!!
A bunch of fruit fly's in my house would only tick of my wife.
They are very cool though!! Nice deco!

 

[SeaSlug]

The shots of the frogs are two seperate ones , there a pair in a 30 gallon oceanic cube . Raptor I hear ya on the cultures . I breed wingless fruit flys , so there very easy to control and never have a chance to fly ( no wings ) the cultures I breed at work . Sounds like you know about fly cultures , mine only smell when they die off ( about 30 days ) but I get them out of the house long before the stink comes . My wife doesn't care as long as they don't escape and fly around ( which they can't & and I get the cultures out of the house before they go bad and stink . To be honest I wouldn't be able to handle the smell or fruit fly's flying around either , if that was the case I wouldn't have them . If you ever decide to get them let me know and I'll tell you how to avoid the pitfalls , even if you do breed them at home . I only breed at work , because I'm there more than I'm at home most of the time & my boss is cool with it as long as there not running around or smelling , otherwise he would not let me do it either.