Description
A successful bioactive vivarium depends on what happens behind the scenes.
The Bioactive Microfauna Support Pack is a high-value double bundle designed to support two of the most important foundations of dart frog keeping: reliable fruit fly cultures and actively reproducing isopod populations. By strengthening both, you reduce maintenance, improve enclosure stability, and ensure consistent feeder availability.
This pack focuses on ecosystem function, making it the perfect companion to the Dart Frog Essentials Pack, which supports frog health directly through vitamins, minerals, and clay bath enrichment.
🪰 Fruit Fly Feast (150g)
Fruit Fly Feast is a fruit-fly culture feed formulated to support strong, productive fruit fly cultures for routine culture maintenance. The 150g size is ideal for keepers running multiple cultures or feeding larger collections.
Benefits include:
Supports fruit-fly culture production
Supports ongoing culture maintenance
Adult feeder-fly production
Reliable feeder supply for dart frogs and froglets
Used alongside vitamin supplementation such as the Dart Frog Essentials Pack, this helps ensure feeders are not only plentiful, but nutritionally supported.
🪱 Isopod Repro (150g)
Isopod Repro is designed to support reproduction, growth, and long-term population stability in isopods used as clean-up crews in bioactive vivariums.
Rather than simply feeding isopods, this blend is intended as supplementary food for maintained isopod cultures — helping your vivarium remain cleaner and more stable over time.
Supports:
Culture feeding during breeding and juvenile growth
Provides dietary material during growth and moulting
Efficient breakdown of waste and leaf litter
Established clean-up-crew cultures
When combined with a clay bath from the Dart Frog Essentials Pack, the products can be used as separate husbandry components within the enclosure.
🌱 Designed for Bioactive Vivariums
Used together, these products can be used as part of a managed bioactive setup:
Fruit flies provide consistent live nutrition
Isopods recycle waste and enrich the substrate
Healthy microfauna support plant growth and enclosure balance
For a complete bioactive care system, pair this pack with the Dart Frog Essentials Pack to cover both ecosystem health and direct frog supplementation.
📦 What’s Included
Fruit Fly Feast – 150g
Isopod Repro – 150g
Feeding & Usage Instructions (Product Tab / Accordion)
Fruit Fly Feast
Use as part of your standard fruit fly culture media
Add sparingly; a small amount goes a long way
Suitable for ongoing maintenance or boosting production
Store sealed in a cool, dry place
Isopod Repro
Sprinkle lightly onto leaf litter, cork bark, or substrate
Use 1–2 times per week depending on colony size
Remove excess in very humid setups
Store sealed and dry
Important Notes
For use with invertebrates and amphibian food cultures only
Not intended for direct feeding to vertebrates
No animals included
Feeding & Evidence Review
Last reviewed: 5 September 2026
Published amphibian nutrition research shows that cultured feeder insects can be low in calcium and some vitamins, and that dusting and gut-loading can improve nutrient delivery. However, feeder composition and supplement retention vary considerably. Product and culture-performance observations below are therefore separated from claims about the nutritional needs of the animal eating the feeder.
Evidence & further reading
- Latney & Clayton – amphibian nutrition and common feeder insects
- Livingston et al. – nutrient supplementation, dusting and gut-loading
- Ferrie et al. – Nutrition and Health in Amphibian Husbandry