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I had African dwarf frogs in the past. I had them alone, and they need to be imo. They are really bad at finding food, I had to hand feed each of them frozen/thawed bloodworms. They didn't eat other food regularly or easily as pellets sank and were too hard for them to find on a regular basis. The BW are a density that float a bit when the frogs move around them. Other people experience may vary, but they were quite a bit of work for me and since so bad at finding food the water quality would go bad quickly without additional maintenance. Cool frogs, but I don't think they would do well in a community tank.
 
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hart24601 said:
I had African dwarf frogs in the past. I had them alone, and they need to be imo. They are really bad at finding food, I had to hand feed each of them frozen/thawed bloodworms. They didn't eat other food regularly or easily as pellets sank and were too hard for them to find on a regular basis. The BW are a density that float a bit when the frogs move around them. Other people experience may vary, but they were quite a bit of work for me and since so bad at finding food the water quality would go bad quickly without additional maintenance. Cool frogs, but I don't think they would do well in a community tank.
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Yea this put me off getting frogs, if you want an amphibian in a tank get fire belly toads of axolotls. Axolotls are super cool coldwater salamanders that eat quite well and love gripping fingers
 
Hendre said:
Yea this put me off getting frogs, if you want an amphibian in a tank get fire belly toads of axolotls. Axolotls are super cool coldwater salamanders that eat quite well and love gripping fingers
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They are awesome, a bit fragile though
 
Hendre said:
Yea this put me off getting frogs, if you want an amphibian in a tank get fire belly toads of axolotls. Axolotls are super cool coldwater salamanders that eat quite well and love gripping fingers
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I assume you mean in a species-only or amphibians-only tank, not with fish?

Oompa Loompa said:
They are awesome, a bit fragile though
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Axos, yes, FBTs, no.

hart24601 said:
I had African dwarf frogs in the past. I had them alone, and they need to be imo. They are really bad at finding food, I had to hand feed each of them frozen/thawed bloodworms. They didn't eat other food regularly or easily as pellets sank and were too hard for them to find on a regular basis. The BW are a density that float a bit when the frogs move around them. Other people experience may vary, but they were quite a bit of work for me and since so bad at finding food the water quality would go bad quickly without additional maintenance. Cool frogs, but I don't think they would do well in a community tank.
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I thought this was a great post, only thing I wanted to add to it was African Dwarfs are stupid as well and a tank no taller than 12" is generally recommended so they can surface and breathe with ease. I have seen them in tanks to tall and they struggle at "swimming too far" to get air ad will go up, think the surface is too far, then just go back down with out breathing.....and do this several times before finally getting air.....and can drown from it.

African CLAWED Frogs on the other hand are much easier and hardier, however , I had even the LARGEST ACFs harassed or even chased up and OUT of the tank itself in the past by trying to keep them with Cichlids. It CAN work, but the risk is too much IMO. Besides, after reading & hearing Xenopus laevis is the prime suspect for the mass epidemic of Chytrid fungus infections (Chytridiomycota) around the world I encourage people to Boycott buying this species for the sake of our Planet's native amphibian species since people can't stop releasing the into the wild.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chytridiomycota
 
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Frank Castle said:
I assume you mean in a species-only or amphibians-only tank, not with fish?

Axos, yes, FBTs, no.


I thought this was a great post, only thing I wanted to add to it was African Dwarfs are stupid as well and a tank no taller than 12" is generally recommended so they can surface and breathe with ease. I have seen them in tanks to tall and they struggle at "swimming too far" to get air ad will go up, think the surface is too far, then just go back down with out breathing.....and do this several times before finally getting air.....and can drown from it.

African CLAWED Frogs on the other hand are much easier and hardier, however , I had even the LARGEST ACFs harassed or even chased up and OUT of the tank itself in the past by trying to keep them with Cichlids. It CAN work, but the risk is too much IMO. Besides, after reading & hearing Xenopus laevis is the prime suspect for the mass epidemic of Chytrid fungus infections (Chytridiomycota) around the world I encourage people to Boycott buying this species for the sake of our Planet's native amphibian species since people can't stop releasing the into the wild.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chytridiomycota
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I did them with bettas a while ago, as long as they're in a small enough tank and there's nothing that's gonna get to food much/any quicker than them, they will do fine IME.

Oh yeah, I was talking about axo's :)
 
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