Cycling a Fish tank with Frogs
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Frogs are particularly prone to suffer from a toxic environment, I would rather use a quick cycle bacterial product.
I’ve found that with both dwarf frogs and clawed frogs, they do find in dirty water, but once parameters get near toxic levels (which is more than likely in a cycle), they are the first to go.
Besides, is you are indeed talking about Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog, and not the dwarf frogs, it will severely limit your stocking plans if it survives the cycle.
Besides, is you are indeed talking about Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog, and not the dwarf frogs, it will severely limit your stocking plans if it survives the cycle.
SeaChem Stabile is what you want. Cycling in a bottle (read that just like the song)
In that case, I agree that you should just cycle it without animals and dose chemicals if you want to. Mine died of high ammonia/nitrite/nitrate. It’s not a pretty picture.
If you want as a tankmate, try guppies, they are usually small and fast enough to not be easy prey, and they also reproduce fast, which means more food for the frog and also more activity in the tank from both the fish and the frogs chasing them.
They really do, they're actually outcompeting the local clawed frogs (Xenopus gilli) here in the Cape region of South Africa, the bigger clawed frogs have moved East as they do better in Urban habitats than X. gilli, which prefers the tannin rich pools of the cape. Thought it would be an interesting tidbit. Here is one I caught at a botanical garden:
Do they get as big as laevis? The one I got from the “grow a frog” never got bigger than 2-3 inches, and i know it was a male, but that seems small even for a male. I know tropicalis only max out at 4 inches.