My "new" 65 gallon

[rodsboys]

Indeed quite strange that the little one doesn´t get eaten by the big ones. He is an albino and not a reticulated as far as I can see.

I can't believe your going to argue what color MY damn frog is with me...... Apparantly I need to prove it to you so here is a pic that has been around here for a while when he was a "baby":

[mpmistr]

Definitely reticulated. =]

[rodsboys]

As far as him being eaten I too am surprised he has made it and is quite bold and disregarded as food by the big frogs. That being said I was no longer willing to maintain a seperate set up for just him. At the point when He and the little albino female were added to "general pop" my feelings were eat or be eaten. If I loose him, it is what it is.

[mpmistr]

How old is Carl? I have a frog that doesn't seem to be growing much either and it's frustrating.

[rodsboys]

How old is Carl? I have a frog that doesn't seem to be growing much either and it's frustrating.

I got him in February. He should be close to a year by now. The female I bought at the same is 3-4 times his size. He eats, but never a glutten like the others. Because of his small size I hand feed him when doing special/treat food to make sure he gets his fill.

[mpmistr]

Makes me wonder if he's not an X. Laevis, but he sure looks like one though. Perhaps he is OK because the frogs grew up together? I've raised my ACF with glass shrimp since they were small froglets and surprisingly I've had few casualties and they make great little tank left over food cleaners.

I have a small light tan pigmented ACF who doesn't want to grow either! He's very shy but seems to be getting a little bolder. I wish he'd catch up to the others!

[rodsboys]

I am sure my guy is X. laevis. You have to remember that humans are the reason a frog like this can be encountered/survive. If he were wild born he would likely be dead by now. I have heard of these guys occasionally staying small or never growing. I believe Jenna has one and I know other people have mentioned it on here.

I don't buy into the frogs growing up together thing. My big frogs will even try to eat my hand whenever I mess around in the tank. I have also tried to keep large goldfish with them in the past and the frogs were relentless even though the fish were impossible to eat. Perhaps Carl is on borrowed time.

[mpmistr]

Hard to say. I suppose it's totally possible that small frogs just have 'bad' genes. I do hope Carl survives!

Funny you mention biting your hand, I had the same thing happen to me yesterday. I was holding some food above the water and my frog jumped up and bit my finger, he almost grabbed on to it. I moved my hand back really fast cause it kind of surprised me lol..

My frogs will eat any fish that comes into the water, last time I added some mollies to my tank they ate them all over night and harassed the poor fish so bad they were hiding behind the filter.. glass shrimp though? I've seen them eat them but 99.9999% of the time they couldn't care less about them, weird?