African Clawed frog assistance

[mpmistr]

Okay if it's a Xenopus then yes get that little guy to a 10 gallon ASAP.

If the arm is broken just leave it alone, Xenopusare known for being quick healers, so it will heal on its own. Do you have any idea how it broke though? Remove any decoration from the aquarium that may have caused this. There's no magical food to mend a broken bone but you'll want to keep reptomin in the diet since that has calcium, may want to just skip the beef heart, frogs don't eat cows. I would recommend using reptomin as a staple that's mostly what I feed my frogs.

Temperature should be 68-72F, I personally keep my ACF at around 70F (cause that's what my AC is set at).

To answer your other questions, yes blind frogs can still find food, maybe a bit slower though -- no competition if kept alone means your frog will get his food just fine. They use smell and 'feel' things in the water more than they use their sight. Honestly I think they use their eyes for spotting predators more than anything.. when my Xenopus go on the hunt (I keep molly fry and ghost shrimp in my tank which they snack on -- albeit slowly) it's always in pitch black darkness at night.. so they don't seem to use vision as much as other senses to locate prey.

Since 10g is about the minimum for an adult xenopus I would't recommend any tank mates, could try some ghost shrimp though, I keep ghost shrimp with my frogs they eat excess food and they themselves provide a snack to the frogs now and then -- they're also only 30 cents or less usually to buy.

Oh by the way if you don't have a filter make sure you get one, for a 10g I would recommend a Tetra Whisper 20i (internal filter, very gentle). I use a Tetra Whisper 40i and a Marineland Penguin 150b for my froglets on a 20g tank (moving to a 40g breeder soon), so that is a lot of filtration and the frogs don't mind it at all.

[Pippin]

I actually use a filter in the 3 gallon, I am a big filter fan. The bigger tank with a bigger filter (I use the internal tetra whispers) should keep the water cooler too. I think she broke it just in a "freak out" as I call them. Since she can't see any loud bump that vibrates the water makes her go bonkers, and she jolts all over the tank. It also doesn't help that her favorite hide is crammed tight behind the filter. I will definitely get her some ghost shrimp to add some more variety to her diet. I'll use some large river stones for substrate, and provide hides in pots and live plants to try and discourage her from cramming behind the filter so her wrist heals faster. What kind of reptomin do you feed your frogs? I feed the turtle pellets cause they seem to contain all the things necessary (and I already buy it for the turtle) but is there something better?

[mpmistr]

I actually use a filter in the 3 gallon, I am a big filter fan. The bigger tank with a bigger filter (I use the internal tetra whispers) should keep the water cooler too. I think she broke it just in a "freak out" as I call them. Since she can't see any loud bump that vibrates the water makes her go bonkers, and she jolts all over the tank. It also doesn't help that her favorite hide is crammed tight behind the filter. I will definitely get her some ghost shrimp to add some more variety to her diet. I'll use some large river stones for substrate, and provide hides in pots and live plants to try and discourage her from cramming behind the filter so her wrist heals faster. What kind of reptomin do you feed your frogs? I feed the turtle pellets cause they seem to contain all the things necessary (and I already buy it for the turtle) but is there something better?

I feed mine reptomin for 'baby' turtles cause the sticks are smaller and I also have juvenile frogs around the same size as yours.

ACF are very strong swimmers and yes they can have panic attacks which is another good reason to give them a lot of space, so yeah it's possible your frog could have injured himself that way. Give him more space and let the arm heal on its own, also try to spook him less if possible, maybe move the tank to a more quiet area in your home.

[Pippin]

I'll pick up some baby sticks while I am at the store. And I will be moving her to her new tank tomorrow. I'll offer a lot more hides too to try and give more cover so she doesn't freak out as much. Thank you so much for your patience and good advice for me by the way

[Jenste]

Can you post pictures of her arm?

She will definitely grow accustomed to the extra space in the 10 gallon but I do not recommend a tank mate for a 10 gallon - it is too small to house two ACF.
Make her environment "softer" with sand substrate and live plants. Even moss balls are fine. She does not need "hides" as she cannot see to find them anyways - cover is to disperse light/shadows as they have no eyelids but this is not needed in her case.

[mpmistr]

If you use sand I would recommend something like Carib Sea's Moonlight sand (extremely fine, soft sand) and not a sharp abrasive sand, like Carib Sea's Tahitian Moon.

[Pippin]

I'll post a picture of her if I can get a good one on my phone tomorrow. She just holds it weird at the wrist. She still has mobility in it, she just doesn't sprawl her fingers wide, nor uses it in feeding. As for the tank I finished it this afternoon. A ten gallon really well planted tank with anubias, anacharsis, amazon sword, and a climbing sword (the one that looks like an underwater spider plant). I used very large smooth round river stones for substrate because I use an internal filter and the sand jams its impeller constantly in a 10 gallon. I did put a small flower pot in there for a hide if she wishes to use it, but she doesn't seem too interested. I'm not gonna get her a tank mate, she just has her big apple snail friend...who immediately savaged a baby climbing sword upon entering the tank. She seems to be adjusting well, fully taking advantage of the soft plants to lay in.

One concern I have now though is she doesn't take much interest in the reptomin pellets. She will greedily eat bloodworms, but they are not as nutritionally valuable. I tried feeding her reptomin today, (granted she just moved into the new tank) but she wasn't remotely interested in the reptomin. The snail was happy to clean up though. How should I get her to feed on them? I especially want her to have the extra calcium they add. Also as far as ghost shrimp in their diet how nutritional are they?