Fruit Fly Cleaning themselves

[WannabeVivMaster]

We all dust our fruit flies with calcium and vitamins.... As soon as we dust the flies, they begin cleaning themselves. They turn back to their original color indicating they get most of the powder off. I don't see little balls of white powder left behind. Do they eat the calcium/vitamin powder??? Hopefully they do, that way the frogs still get the calcium/vitamins.

[RecycledAgain]

Some studies suggest that the super fine powder is still on the flies for up-wards of 12 hours. I wouldn't be concerned about under supplementing as long as you are using fresh supplements. In fact, some experts believe that supplementing every day can lead to hypervitaminosis. Just goes to show how much we still have to learn about keeping Dendrobatidae.

Dan