New addition plus near heart attack

[Gnag the nameless]

I'm sorry you had to experience that

Even so, don't be discouraged from keeping these guys. Everyone makes mistakes at the start, I certainly did.

I think Michael is right about lowering the water, it should prevent your other little guy from getting out. As for how he got out, check the corners of the lids. If you don't press them down enough sometimes, there's large holes that a frog could get out of. I know, because I've seen my Chorus frog, Chrome, squeeze through one with ease.

And I know exactly how you feel about being terrified of taking the lid off of a tank and putting it back on. I'm always terrified when that I put the crickets in my Chorus frogs' tank that my little rascals are going to leap out and hop away too fast to catch them!

[Felis]

So sorry for your loss
But I feel you are trying hard and your tank is really good for ACFs, so I think you shouldn´t give up as well.

As for the Corydoras: Like Jenna said, this is a dangerous combination. In January, I wanted to adopt a new frog, but a few days before I could pick it up, this happened:

The frog tried to eat a catfish at night, but it got stuck in the frog´s throat with its spines- both were found dead the following morning.

[Mentat]

Very sorry about Calvin's death !

[Miss Blue]

read this post and it is absolutely heart breaking. so easy to get discouraged when you feel you are a bad "parent" but like everyone on here has said, we all learn the hard way! morale of the story is you have a good heart, good intentions, obviously lots of love to give so i say keep at it and learn from this. look after your other guy and over time you may feel ready for more, and if not thats ok too. just focus on getting past this and pampering the other frog and making some awesome memories with your new little guy, you will get through this!

[SwimminSteve]

Somehow I feel like sharing my own ACF mishaps might make you feel better. I've owned these guys for around 7 years now. I have 6 frogs at the moment. Sure they are all happy and healthy now, but I promise you that no one is perfect and unfortunately there is a lot of room for error in keeping these guys. My first incident happened just a few days after I moved my frogs into a big new tank. There was a 3/4" gap in the back between the lid and the background of the tank. Sure enough, I come down one morning to find that TWO frogs were missing from the tank. My cat happily pointed out the large female frog on the floor. Luckily she wasn't very dry and recovered quickly. However, I couldn't find the little male that was missing. I tore my house apart, literally looking everywhere at least 3 times. Eventually I gave up because I knew that he wouldn't have made it long before he dried up anyway. I felt sick to my stomach for days. The guilt! I felt awful for that guy, thinking he had suffered a terrible, slow death. Well let me tell you, I walk into the house one day to find my cat playing with this "thing" on the floor. Upon further investigation I see that it was my poor froggies' leg!! After the initial horror of realizing that he had been dead all along-- apparently eaten by the cat, I actually felt a little relieved at knowing that he hadn't died slowly from dessication. I promptly taped up the gap in the lid to ensure this never happened again.

Unfortunately that wasn't my only incident. Luckily at the time I had a roommate that had to be up very early for work. At 5am one morning she woke me up to tell me that one of my frogs was in the kitchen. I race downstairs and low and behold, my 2 gorgeous reticulated albinos were missing. I found one in the kitchen. Luckily she had hopped onto a plastic bag and was making a lot of noise squirming around!! This probably saved her life. I searched for a few hours for her brother, but no luck. Devastated I sat down and tried to take my mind off it. That's when I saw him: smiling at me from inside the filter!!! The little bugger had jumped up the "waterfall" part of my HOB filter and ended up sitting in the well of it. He looked totally content sitting it there too.

Needless to say, I ended up selling that tank in favor of one that could be 110% escape-proof. I have a heavy lid and I seal any questionable areas (like the filter) with packing tape. I've been escape free for over a year now. The moral of the story is that these little frogs are suicidal maniacs. Ok just kidding, but really, you have to take every precaution and then some. We all make mistakes in the beginning. I'm so sorry about Alvin, but you don't have to give up. I know that you can take great care of your new guy!

[reptileszz]

Somehow I feel like sharing my own ACF mishaps might make you feel better. I've owned these guys for around 7 years now. I have 6 frogs at the moment. Sure they are all happy and healthy now, but I promise you that no one is perfect and unfortunately there is a lot of room for error in keeping these guys. My first incident happened just a few days after I moved my frogs into a big new tank. There was a 3/4" gap in the back between the lid and the background of the tank. Sure enough, I come down one morning to find that TWO frogs were missing from the tank. My cat happily pointed out the large female frog on the floor. Luckily she wasn't very dry and recovered quickly. However, I couldn't find the little male that was missing. I tore my house apart, literally looking everywhere at least 3 times. Eventually I gave up because I knew that he wouldn't have made it long before he dried up anyway. I felt sick to my stomach for days. The guilt! I felt awful for that guy, thinking he had suffered a terrible, slow death. Well let me tell you, I walk into the house one day to find my cat playing with this "thing" on the floor. Upon further investigation I see that it was my poor froggies' leg!! After the initial horror of realizing that he had been dead all along-- apparently eaten by the cat, I actually felt a little relieved at knowing that he hadn't died slowly from dessication. I promptly taped up the gap in the lid to ensure this never happened again.

Unfortunately that wasn't my only incident. Luckily at the time I had a roommate that had to be up very early for work. At 5am one morning she woke me up to tell me that one of my frogs was in the kitchen. I race downstairs and low and behold, my 2 gorgeous reticulated albinos were missing. I found one in the kitchen. Luckily she had hopped onto a plastic bag and was making a lot of noise squirming around!! This probably saved her life. I searched for a few hours for her brother, but no luck. Devastated I sat down and tried to take my mind off it. That's when I saw him: smiling at me from inside the filter!!! The little bugger had jumped up the "waterfall" part of my HOB filter and ended up sitting in the well of it. He looked totally content sitting it there too.

Needless to say, I ended up selling that tank in favor of one that could be 110% escape-proof. I have a heavy lid and I seal any questionable areas (like the filter) with packing tape. I've been escape free for over a year now. The moral of the story is that these little frogs are suicidal maniacs. Ok just kidding, but really, you have to take every precaution and then some. We all make mistakes in the beginning. I'm so sorry about Alvin, but you don't have to give up. I know that you can take great care of your new guy!

thank you for recounting what have to be painful memories. I really appreciate the support i have gotten on this forum !! I am on a brief vacation right now and pray my caretaker makes sure the lid is shut.

thank you again and sorry for your losses
Carole