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 #1619074


Newtdude92
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 Any advice?

i recently bought 3 african clawed frogs. there are 2 males and 1 female. they are currently living in a 10 gallon tank with a chinese dwarf firebelly newt and i feed both of them frozen cubes of bloodworms. the frogs are only about 1 1/2 inches long right now.

i have plenty of experience with newts but this is my first time owning frogs. any advice or information to keep my frogs healthy and happy would be great.
02/11/08  12:48am

 #1619285


Reptileguy2727
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   Message To: Newtdude92   In reference to Message Id: 1619074


 Any advice?

Give them I high quality pelleted diet. These have more nutrition than assorted frozen and dried foods. They will outgrow that tank so start making plans for them to move. If they get big enough to try it, that newt is poisonous and would kill them if they tried to eat it, so move them soon. The newt should have land and water, but the frogs just need water. So a fully aquatic setup is more appropriate for them.



02/11/08  08:52am

 #1619308


Keechoo
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   Message To: Newtdude92   In reference to Message Id: 1619074


 Any advice?

Each ACF requires 10 gallons but I have read you could keep 3 in a 20 gallon long tank. I have 2 in my 20 gallon with lots of plants and a hide which they don’t use very often now that they have all of the plants to hang out in.

You should be feeding them a varied diet such as bloodworms, trout worms, earthworms, crickets, cooked chicken, cooked beef heart, and pellets (if they accept them). Mine never ate the pellets so it fouled up the water pretty fast.

The FBN needs to leave the tank. Once the ACF gets large enough they will try to eat it and will die from the poison. Even as small as they are now, they might try to take a bite.

I raised female from a tadpole and got my male 2 years ago (making sure he was the same size as her so maybe the same age). This March she will be 3. She has already laid eggs 3 or 4 times but I didn’t try to hatch them. They are roughly 3 inches (body) and another 2 inches (legs). They won’t eat pellets, don’t seem to care for crickets but love trout worms, earthworms, and guppies. You can either have a filter or not, it’s your preference. I didn’t have one because a breeder and some articles I read said that the filter upsets them something about their body chemistry. However, I experimented last week and put in an underwater filter with the flow directed downwards and towards the glass. They don’t go near it but aren’t spazzing out like they did with a side hanging filter. Also, they don’t need a heater nor a light unless you have live plants that need the fluorescent lighting.

Good luck and enjoy!
02/11/08  09:59am

 #1619397


Newtdude92
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   Message To: Keechoo   In reference to Message Id: 1619308


 Any advice?

ok thanks

how many eggs do they lay and how big do they get?
02/11/08  11:35am

 #1619424


Newtdude92
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   Message To: Newtdude92   In reference to Message Id: 1619397


 Any advice?

also the tank that the frogs are in is only a temperary home and a talk divider seperates the newt from the frogs.

also...after a few days whenever the newt is in there a thin layer of oily stuff apears on the surface of the water. will that hurt the frogs?
02/11/08  11:55am

 #1619431


Reptileguy2727
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   Message To: Newtdude92   In reference to Message Id: 1619397


 Any advice?

Even highly varied whole food diets (trout worms, earthworms, frozen , dried, etc.) do not provide a truly complete and balanced diet. If you get them hungry they will take pellets, there are very few exceptions to this and even those may not be true exceptions but people simply not doing what it takes to switch over the frog.

Filters clean the water, plain and simple. They do not alter the frog’s chemistry. They keep the water clean, which is important for frogs, fish, and other aquatic animals. Flow rate may be a factor, but having a filter in general is not.



02/11/08  11:57am

 #1619432


Keechoo
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   Message To: Newtdude92   In reference to Message Id: 1619397


 Any advice?

I didn’t count but it was in the 100s. They were scattered throughout the tank and were a bit gray looking with a darker center. They were pretty small maybe the size of half a small ant or the size of a small snail that comes in with the plants.
02/11/08  11:58am

 #1619857


Reptileguy2727
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   Message To: Keechoo   In reference to Message Id: 1619432


 Any advice?

What is all that? What is that responding to?
02/11/08  06:04pm

 #1619974


FrogMasterGeneral
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   Message To: Reptileguy2727   In reference to Message Id: 1619857


 Any advice?

Too strong of a filter or a long splash back can be irritating as well as stressful in some cases. If the water movement is too strong it can mess with their lat lines. Mine all eat crickets, krill, shrimp(no sodium), nightcrawlers, squid, and the occasional pinky or fuzzy.



02/11/08  07:43pm

 #1620219


Keechoo
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   Message To: Reptileguy2727   In reference to Message Id: 1619857


 Any advice?

Quote:

What is all that? What is that responding to?



That is in response to Newtdudes question about the eggs.

Do you have ACFs or did you just take care of them in the pet store? I don’t appreciate your tone at all. I am a teacher married to a biologist. Be a bit more polite.
02/11/08  10:10pm

 #1620544


Reptileguy2727
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   Message To: Keechoo   In reference to Message Id: 1620219


 Any advice?

Unless you are responding to the last post, it helps to specify to whom you are responding to or make sure enough information is in your response so that anyone reading it knows what it is about.

I am a Biology major and will be teaching High School. My tone was simply one of ’what does that mean’ because you never mentioned eggs or who you were replying to.



02/12/08  08:51am

 #1620574


Keechoo
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   Message To: Reptileguy2727   In reference to Message Id: 1620544


 Any advice?

If you look at the top where it says "Message to" you’ll see that his name was listed. Pay attention to all of the post, not just the message.

Also, you didn’t answer my question.
02/12/08  09:37am

 #1620715


Reptileguy2727
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   Message To: Keechoo   In reference to Message Id: 1620574


 Any advice?

I have had them before, may get some more again. I also take care of them and all the other frogs at work.



02/12/08  01:11pm

 #1683769


Newtdude92
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   Message To: Reptileguy2727   In reference to Message Id: 1620715


 Any advice?

bump
03/31/08  04:23pm


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