Free frog food from my point of view. I welcome them
Dendro_Dave Wrote:Free frog food from my point of view. I welcome them
lol While I agree with you, having them buzzing around your dinner guests isn't cool. :oops:
Iv allways wondered about their potential to carry pathogens from say a quarantine tank to other established tanks . When we moved into our new house and I started setting up a ton of new vivs they exploded so bad I almost gave up. Took me months to knock it down to manageable. Numbers close to 1000 regularly.
I wonder about that too... and same could go for escaped ff's migrating to other tanks
Last night I had a dream that I was being overrun by gnats in my room, so many that I couldn't even breathe without inhaling them. The price I pay for bumping this thread.
But as I've just got one viv and a half dozen or so gnats at any one time, I think I'm okay.
Well, I just saw my first explosion of gnats in one of Craig's vivs. hundreds of them. They common thing is WET vivs. They need really wet vivs to explode, it seems.
Philsuma Wrote:They common thing is WET vivs. They need really wet vivs to explode
100% Or wet Iso bins. :|
ZenMonkey Wrote:Last night I had a dream that I was being overrun by gnats in my room, so many that I couldn't even breathe without inhaling them. The price I pay for bumping this thread.
But as I've just got one viv and a half dozen or so gnats at any one time, I think I'm okay.
Happens to me all the time, then I wake up and realize.... OMG!!! ...It wasn't a dream!!!... HELP!!! :oops:
At least I'd rather eat a gnat than a fruit fly. ;-)
So if the gnats become a problem, how do you go about drying out the viv while maintaining high enough humidity for the frogs? Right now there's just enough gnats in mine to give the frogs a workout chasing them, but I'd like to be prepared. My viv floor could use some drying out, and it's very dry here so it shouldn't take too long if I mist less. I've been keeping the humidity at 80% or above, around 90% on average; how low can I let it get? In the false bottom there's about an inch of water in the leca.
ZenMonkey Wrote:At least I'd rather eat a gnat than a fruit fly. ;-)
So if the gnats become a problem, how do you go about drying out the viv while maintaining high enough humidity for the frogs? Right now there's just enough gnats in mine to give the frogs a workout chasing them, but I'd like to be prepared. My viv floor could use some drying out, and it's very dry here so it shouldn't take too long if I mist less. I've been keeping the humidity at 80% or above, around 90% on average; how low can I let it get? In the false bottom there's about an inch of water in the leca.
I wouldn't worry about it if you have one viv. They will fizzle out in time.
frogfreak Wrote:I wouldn't worry about it if you have one viv. They will fizzle out in time.
Agreed. I have had substantial booms of these from time to time. They seem to hit a new tank and like just about everything else we consider a pest in our tanks if you are patient they will cycle down to reasonable numbers. I have a wall of tanks and I bet if you looked at it now you'd spot 4 or 5 gnats.