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    Default Re: New Owner that has been greatly misinformed.

    It is quite bad - - feeders are very ill kept and it takes only one ill fish to infect your whole tank. You risk infecting your frog every time you put an unquarantined fish in the tank. Besides that, they are not a nutritionally complete diet.

    Can you post a picture of your frog please?
    The best way to tell the difference between an ACF and an ADF is to look at the front hands. If they have webbing between them like the back toes, then it is ADF. If there is no webbing and only 4 fingers, it is ACF.

    A 10 gallon tank is appropriate for only ONE ACF.
    72 Gallon Bow - ACF and GF tank.
    26 Gallon Bow - ACF tank.

    20 Gallon Long - ACF tank.


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    If you are in a bind with the feeders; take them out of the tank, throw them in a sandwhich bag with no water and freeze them. After he is eating a good pellited diet offer them as a treat once a week (1 fish thawed) until you get rid of them.

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    definitely an acf, and looks like a little girl. It makes me angry that a corporate pet shop would sell as the wrong frog, but what can ya do other than complain. Which I think I will. I did have 2 but I havent seen one of them since last friday, so time will tell if it mysteriously escaped or has been evading me. I have sealed up my holes, and have an eye out for a 20 gallon tank. Thinking she was only a dwarf frog I thought I had plenty of room, now knowing she is an acf, I will work on a bigger home... bummer about the feeder guppies, I will have to complain about that also. I think I will send an email to corporate and tell them they need to inform their employees and label the froggies correctly.

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    Default Re: New Owner that has been greatly misinformed.

    What else is in your tank that is preventing you from seeing the other frog?

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    I have a log for my pleco to hide in. Yesterday both frogs were missing, I stripped the tank of all fake plants took the log twisted it and rotated it and found nothing. 20 minutes later out was a froggy. so I don't know for sure if the other is in there or not. they are very very good hiders. but there was a hole in the top of the tank about 1.5 inches squared. so it is possible he jumped out and disappeared. but that would have to be one talented frog.

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    Unfortunately, big redflag here.

    "PLECO"

    What species of pleco do you have? None are small enough for anything under a 25-30 gallon. The common pleco, which sadly is sold very cheap as a baby and tiny....gets over a foot long and is needs a 100+gallon tank.
    72 Gallon Bow - ACF and GF tank.
    26 Gallon Bow - ACF tank.

    20 Gallon Long - ACF tank.


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    yes I am well aware my pleco will outgrow my tank, I have recently been trying to decide if I want to free him in a pond, find him a new home, or what... right now he is doing fine, but I am aware that he will be needing bigger accommodations. I have had him for 5 years or so, which makes the decision very difficult. If I choose to free him I want him to be a bit larger than he is right now so he has a fighting chance not to get eaten by a larger fish. Once again, I was a victim of sales. I should have got a cori cat. hope someone can learn from my mistake/mistakes in this post.

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