Sinking ACF

[mpmistr]

Hi. I agree with you that the light and filter are having a positive affect on the frogs that I am keeping in that tank. Even those frogs' bodies are only about an inch. They will be 2 months old on tuesday. They stopped growing about a week or 2 ago and I think I am even spotting a cloacal extention on one. Do you think it is possible that they are dwarfs? With the eggs, Insect Lore included a paper that states they are "African Water Frogs: xenopus laevis."

What do you like to feed your froglet? What is its name?

Xenopus Laevis are African Clawed Frogs (not Dwarf). You can tell the different between Clawed and Dwarf frogs pretty easily, the front 'arms' on a Clawed Frog are not webbed while the Dwarf has webbed fingers. Clawed frogs eyes are positioned more on the top of the head, Dwarf are on the sides, also most Clawed frogs at least when fed properly, are a lot fatter than Dwarf frogs (I've only seen ADF in pet stores they always look skinny). Clawed frogs are also much better swimmers from what I have seen, Dwarf frogs seem a lot more lethargic in comparison..

I feed my froglets reptomin pretty much exclusively. I can't seem to get them to swim up for the pellets so I usually just hand feed them, I usually feed mine about 3 (small) pellets per day.. I think reptomin makes bigger pellets and I would break those up. I soak the pellets a bit too before feeding. I tried HBH Frog & Tadpole bites but honestly they have ZERO (and I mean ZERO) interest in them, in fact when I can get them to bite into one, they spit it right back out.. they go crazy for reptomin though!

My froglets seem to be growing at a pretty good rate and appear pretty healthy.

[SwimminSteve]

You definitely don't have dwarfs. They haven't stopped growing, but they're slowing down. My froglet, Pip, is doing the same thing. She grew really quick in the beginning, but now has slowed down. They tend to go through growth spurts. I feed her every day. She gets a variety including small guppies, bloodworms, and brine shrimp, but her staple is the HBH frog bites. All of my frogs love them. I think the reason a lot of people have trouble with the HBH pellets is because of substrate. They are easiest to feed in a bare-bottom or sand-bottom tank. They will fall in the cracks of gravel and rock tanks and be very difficult for the frogs to reach.

[mpmistr]

You definitely don't have dwarfs. They haven't stopped growing, but they're slowing down. My froglet, Pip, is doing the same thing. She grew really quick in the beginning, but now has slowed down. They tend to go through growth spurts. I feed her every day. She gets a variety including small guppies, bloodworms, and brine shrimp, but her staple is the HBH frog bites. All of my frogs love them. I think the reason a lot of people have trouble with the HBH pellets is because of substrate. They are easiest to feed in a bare-bottom or sand-bottom tank. They will fall in the cracks of gravel and rock tanks and be very difficult for the frogs to reach.

I think you're right about HBH pellets. I use larger pond pebbles/river rocks and they just fall through the substrate (my ghost shrimp eat them at least), I have TRIED hand feeding the pellets but they DO spit them out and it's frustrating. I just have a very hard time getting them to eat them.. my froglets are currently in a 20 gallon but I do plan on moving them to a 55 gallon after a while which uses pool filter sand as substrate.. I may try again with the pellets then.

Froglets just don't have an easy time finding food with pebbles/rocks as substrate, true story.

[SailAwayAK]

You might go ahead and go bare bottom. I found tanking out the stones made a big difference in how easy it was to keep my tank clean. I will probably go sand soon. I just love the look of it. I do have some silk plants that I have attached to a suction cup to the bottom of my bare tank. It is a temporary fix but gives them some cover.

[tgampper]

You might go ahead and go bare bottom. I found tanking out the stones made a big difference in how easy it was to keep my tank clean. I will probably go sand soon. I just love the look of it. I do have some silk plants that I have attached to a suction cup to the bottom of my bare tank. It is a temporary fix but gives them some cover.

Great idea! I have a bare bottom too for my ACFs. I use a couple of pieces of PVC pipe for hides. They seem to like it.

[emberlisa]

You definitely don't have dwarfs. They haven't stopped growing, but they're slowing down. My froglet, Pip, is doing the same thing. She grew really quick in the beginning, but now has slowed down. They tend to go through growth spurts. I feed her every day. She gets a variety including small guppies, bloodworms, and brine shrimp, but her staple is the HBH frog bites. All of my frogs love them. I think the reason a lot of people have trouble with the HBH pellets is because of substrate. They are easiest to feed in a bare-bottom or sand-bottom tank. They will fall in the cracks of gravel and rock tanks and be very difficult for the frogs to reach.

Someone on this site told me that brine shrimp may lose their nutritional value if they aren't fed to the frog within a few hours of being hatched. What do you think? Do you keep live brine shrimp?

[tgampper]

Someone on this site told me that brine shrimp may lose their nutritional value if they aren't fed to the frog within a few hours of being hatched. What do you think? Do you keep live brine shrimp?

I feed my ACFs ReptoMin exclusively.

[SailAwayAK]

Someone on this site told me that brine shrimp may lose their nutritional value if they aren't fed to the frog within a few hours of being hatched. What do you think? Do you keep live brine shrimp?

I have done some reading in the past on the whole brine shrimp thing. I had an article bookmarked that you may want to read. I personally didn't like the mess they made in my tank when I did the frozen once. I chucked out the rest. YUCK. But this article was interesting for perhaps determining some of the more effective feedings out there. I think the most interesting part was on the calcium because of the other post here about the potential calcium deficiency.