Hello all! I'm thinking of raising & breeding some Dwarf A.frogs, I have a 20gln. & a 10gln. to work with. I need info. on what to feed and general husbandry?.... please help! thanx in advance!!
Dwarf African frog info. please!
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You need to fill the tank with water so if they stand on their back legs their noses can poke out of the water to breathe.
They can live in coldwater or warmwater and seem to prefer warmwater. You need to put a chemical in that takes the chlorine and things out of the water, or you can leave the amount of water to stand for 24 hours before putting your frogs in it (the chlorine etc will evaporate out of it).
You need to do frequent water changes, but again leaving the water to stand for 24 hours or using a chemical to rid the water of chlorines and other chemicals toxic to the frogs. I would personally stand the water for 24 hours, I do that for all my tanks.
I don't know about feeding Dwarf African Clawed Frogs but the Normal clawed frogs will eat bloodworm, crickets, small fish, mealworms, waxworms, anything they can get to, I've had mine eat veggies! You can overfeed them though, so if you notice they're abit to fat, reduce the intake. Obviously a Dwarf Clawed will eat much smaller food.
I think you should start with African clawed frogs before working with the dwarfs IMO.
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You need to fill the tank with water so if they stand on their back legs their noses can poke out of the water to breathe.
They can live in coldwater or warmwater and seem to prefer warmwater. You need to put a chemical in that takes the chlorine and things out of the water, or you can leave the amount of water to stand for 24 hours before putting your frogs in it (the chlorine etc will evaporate out of it).
You need to do frequent water changes, but again leaving the water to stand for 24 hours or using a chemical to rid the water of chlorines and other chemicals toxic to the frogs. I would personally stand the water for 24 hours, I do that for all my tanks.
I don't know about feeding Dwarf African Clawed Frogs but the Normal clawed frogs will eat bloodworm, crickets, small fish, mealworms, waxworms, anything they can get to, I've had mine eat veggies! You can overfeed them though, so if you notice they're abit to fat, reduce the intake. Obviously a Dwarf Clawed will eat much smaller food.
I think you should start with African clawed frogs before working with the dwarfs IMO.
Simular to breeding Betta splendens, so the A.Clawed frog would possibly be a better choice to start with. Thank's again for the good info. And happy fish-keeping to you!
African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus sp.) are illegal in California I think, so I doubt the OP can get them, but anyway, feeding the dwarfs is easy, they eat most small frozen foods, like brine shrimp and bloodworms, I prefer to use a syringe or baster to get it down to where they are.
They start dwarf, but they get to a decent size pretty quickly. We were feeding our dwarf clawed frogs goldfish once a day or so there for a while just to keep him from eating all our display fish. Eventually we had to move the frogs to their own tank 'cause they were just too dominating.
the dwarf african frogs, Hymenochirus, do stay small, and stay very peaceful and passive. If yours is eating goldfish and dominating, it is not a dwarf african frog, it is a clawed frog Xenopus sp.
Hey there bignootch
this site might help you... I have one myself in my 30 gallon Hex
http://aquaticfrogs.tripod.com/id15.html
this site might help you... I have one myself in my 30 gallon Hex
http://aquaticfrogs.tripod.com/id15.html