Hello can any one tell me about this frog's do they have a fast growth rate and how much water i need in my tank what do they eat thinking about buying two for my 40breeder tank
thanks guys wow good informationI've had my clawed frog for three years or so, and she's about three inches long. I didn't really understand frogs when I got her, and she got off to a slow start, but these days she grows visibly every month.
I feed mine a variety of meaty foods: crickets, bloodworms, brine shrimp, nightcrawler segments, waxworms, mealworms, etc. She also really likes Hikari carnivore pellets.
They are extremely adaptable and can usually manage to carve out an existence as long as they have freshwater. I keep mine in a ten gallon tank, completely filled, with a sponge filter. They aren't very picky. As Oddball said, they're often found in warm, muddy, stagnant water that seems like it can't sustain much life... though IME they seem to thrive in somewhat deeper water with filtration.
I wouldn't make the water more than a foot deep though, because they do need to surface to breathe atmospheric oxygen a few times an hour, and despite their robust muscular back legs, they are quite cumbersome swimmers (though mine did get much better at swimming once I added the filter).
I'd be hesitant to keep multiple together. If one of them dominates the other at feeding time, and manages to get a bit of a size advantage, the smaller one could become a dietary supplement. Because of the ecology of this species in the wild... living in puddles and ditches where food is scarce... they have evolved the ability to eat extremely large prey items relative to body size, including other frogs. Don't ever underestimate a frog's ability to eat something.