proper introduction,

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

I have a house in Raleigh NC but I spend about 1/3 of the year traveling for my job.
Currently I only have one 46g bowfront aquarium that is fully stocked (maybe a little overstocked)
15 neon tetras 3 Dalmatian mollies 4 cherrybarbs 3 emerald corys 5 amano shrimp 2 ottos and last but not least by any
means a female African dwarf frog.


Sorry the last one was a bit fuzzy.
And the amano shrimp have been a bit lazy and haven't cleaned the alga you can see.

And here is the eco-terra 18X 18X 36 low
I currently have it setup with an all water bottom with a waterfall and a few
small Dalmatian mollys and some water carpet plants they aren't doing so well right now
Since the Exo-terra light cycle unit packed up.
Hopefully I will have a replacement unit soon.
At the moment I have a small florescent light that isn't really doing a good job.
I have some LED lights I hacked from a lighting system upgrade pack I bought
from lowes. I will include some photos later.
I also have a zoo-med temp-humitiy controller and a zoo-med under tank heating pad
but I put it on the side of the tank since I don't want to cook the fish

But I have a larger problem.
My work has me traveling at min 160 days a year. Some jobs are only a day or two
and other can run weeks.
That is a big problem.
After 5 years I finally got my wife use to feeding the fish frozen cubes of a mixture
of brine shrimp- blood worms ect ect.
There is no way she will feed a frog live food.
When I had a juvenile female bullfrog that I was attempting to save from freezing
to death in a upside down christmas tree stand.
She had a real problem with the crickets in the house that I kept in a
2 gall tank with a full glass lid.
So I might be breaking down the setup and selling it

[Heatheranne]

Welcome to the forum. Pretty tanks. I like the bow front.

[tgampper]

Welcome to Frog Forum, Louis. Your tanks are beautiful. Maybe you should give the frog the entire tank by herself

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Well I have a 20gal long that I might set up for for Her and maybe get 5 more and see what happens,
Also I have to feed her after the lights go out because the other 30+ inhabitants are much faster to find the food than she is.

The only thing is that she is best buds with one of the larger cory's , I might have to move it as well to the new home.
I got almost $100.00 in petsmart gift cards so I might get a good canister filter.

[shydroanna]

I am new to the forum and just a hobbyist so someone more qualified may have the answer to this but I thought African Frogs were completely aquatic and would tolerate dried food like the commercially available frog bites in the fish sections of pet stores? However the picture of your frog does not look like the African Water Frogs I used to have. So I don't know for sure if we are talking about the same species here, but mine lived happily in a 20 gallon filled just enough for the filter to work the filter and with a lot of floating plants to rest on at the top and they ate frog bites and fish food with a brine shrimp treat on occasion. I eventually gave them to a school teacher but had them about 2 years before that. That is my experience with African Water Frogs. So I would double check which type of frog you have, you may not have to worry about your wife not feeding live food while you are gone because I think African Water Frogs are the exception to the live food rule. I hope this information helps. Does your frog ever go on to the rocks?

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Thanks for your input but I am 100% sure that the one frog I do have is a African dwarf frog.
I have had this little girl for over a year now.
I originally had a a pair but one became ill while I was away and my wife doesn't
really know how to tell if it is sick or not unless it is painfully obvious and by then it is too late
to do anything.
She knew enough to remove it from the tank thankfully.

So I have no doubt that she can feed and do basic care for the new setup of purely
the ADF's.
I plan on having a sand substrate with live plants. I think that the frogs will enjoy it.

I just need to get another canister filter and a lighted hood for the 20g long.
Maybe with 5 of them I might get some babies.

[deeishealthy]

Is there a service in your area that will come feed the frogs while you are on an extended trip? Or a neighbourhood kid maybe that you can have come in?