African Water Frogs

[emberlisa]

Hi. I know my blog says Leopard frogs. I don't know what happened, but Insect Lore sent me African Water Frog tadpoles instead. I currently have 7 tadpoles, another one hatched. I'm pretty sure they aren't dwarfs.

[Jenste]

Can you post as clear of a photo as possible of the tadpoles?

African dwarf frog and african clawed frog tadpoles have completely different dietary needs so knowing which species you have is important.

[emberlisa]

Hi. I hope this picture helps to tell if they are dwarfs or not. I think they are not dwarfs because the paper they came in identifies them as "xenopous laevis" which some websites say are not a dwarf species.

[Jenste]

looks like a clawed to me.
What food did they give you for it?
And yes, Xenopus Laevis is the common clawed frog. Hymenochirus is the dwarf frog.

[emberlisa]

Thank you for letting me know what you think. Just as I suspected! The kit came with a bag that says "Food, pellets 1oz." The instructions say give them 2 or 3 pellets DAILY but even one makes the water cloudy. I haven't changed the water yet, just been adding a slight bit of bottled water every day. They're still all swimming around. The instructions say that they give you so many tadpoles because they predict that some will die because not all the eggs that a frog lays in one sitting can be genetically capable of reaching maturity. Is there any way to predict how many will survive? Is there any signs that a tadpole may have bad genetics? Sorry for all the questions. I'm just very curious about how big of a tank I need to get. my father wants to set me up with a 10 gallon.