04.26.03
There are no hard and fast rules to these questions. Ask 20 froggers and
you'll get 33 answers. If there were hard and fast rules it would be an
equation based on the age and species and body weight combined to give an
answer like .239485mg of x strain D. melanogaster per X body wieght of A.1
species. Plus there is another factor. Some times of the year they will eat
more than others. In California you don't have seasons like I do in Texas.
So I don't know how your frogs will acclimate.
Although, I'm making fun of the answer I'm not making fun of the question.
It's one we all face. Obviously I don't feed my imitators or galacts the
same nor do I their froglets. And not so obviously I suspect we all vary how
much we feed by the feel of it. After awhile, you'll just know when your
frogs are happy and keep them that way as much as you can.
Here are the unrules I'd suggest going by:
Keep food avaiable for them all of the time. It's fine for the adult frogs
to go a day without food (unless they are breeding) but froglets need food
continously. If they don't get fed one day it can hurt them. I'd suggest
that until you get to the point you can tell if they have food keeping a
small piece of fruit (banana, apple or mango) in with them. (put it in a
film can or on a plastic cap or whatever to contain the juices and mold from
it) It will draw the fruit flies and the frogs and you'll know if they have
food or not.
I make pints of ff medium that I keep in with my froglets in 10 gallon
tanks, vials for the froglets in shoe boxes.
I dust with vitimans also by the feel. Unlike some I feel I've seen problems
from over dusting. I lost a group of vents to bloating that I was dusting
continually. By breaking it down to general terms I'd suggest dusting with
vitimans everyother feeding. and adding calcium everyother dusting (so one
in four feedings).
The only real rule to this is vitiamn suppliment is absolutely necessary if
you are feeding cultured fruit flies or crickets.
Tracy