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Flightless fruit flies are the standard food item for dart frogs. These small insects are easy and inexpensive to culture, and along with a good quality powdered calcium and vitamin supplement, can provide a complete diet for dart frogs.
At this time, we offer Drosophila melanogaster as our only flightless fruit flies. Mites have been a persistent issue in hydei cultures, and we have yet to find a starter culture colony that is not affected by them. (Our melanogaster are guaranteed mite free!)
Melanogaster flies are easy to culture, and very productive. The primary requirement is an area where the fly cultures can be kept that is in the mid seventies. For more information see the link to the caresheets below.
PLEASE NOTE THAT SHIPMENT OF FRUIT FLIES DURING COLD TEMPERATURES IS RISKY. OUR LIVE ARRIVAL GUARANTEE STATES THAT WE GUARANTEE LIVE ARRIVAL OF FLIES ONLY IF THE TEMPERATURES AT EACH END ARE AT OR ABOVE 20 DEGREES. HOWEVER IT IS STILL POSSIBLE TO GET FLIES DELIVERED IN GOOD CONDITION. MY RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO GET YOUR FLIES DELIVERED IN GOOD SHAPE FOLLOW.
WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO CHOSE SECOND DAY SHIPPING AND HAVE THE BOX HELD FOR PICKUP AT A NEARBY FED EX OFFICE OR SIMILAR FACILITY. ( GROUND SERVICE IS NOT RECOMMENDED. GROUND SERVICE DOES NOT PROVIDE A "HOLD AT LOCATION" SERVICE, GROUND PACKAGES SENT TO FED EX OFFICE LOCATIONS WILL BE RETURNED TO SENDER). IN MOST CASES, HAVING YOUR BOX SENT TO A FED EX LOCATION WILL RESULT IN YOUR BOX BEING READY FOR PICKUP BY NOON THE SECOND DAY FOLLOWING SHIPMENT! THE SMALL INCONVENIENCE OF NOT HAVING YOUR FLIES DELIVERED TO YOUR ADDRESS IS MINOR COMPARED TO THE MORE SIGNIFICANT INCONVENIENCE OF DEAD OR DAMAGED CULTURES!
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