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[mpmistr]

That page is mostly accurate, it's probably the first page I read when I got into ACF though looking back some of the information is a bit dated.

Yes the person who wrote that page personally did not have problems with corydora fish BUT again, it's very rare that housing those two species together EVER works out. If I recall correctly the site does state to NOT house your frogs with corydora catfish and that his set up is out of the ordinary and should not be emulated. The page is also pretty old at this point, who knows what's happened between now and then? Not all ACF are the same but 99.9% will go for a corydora given half a chance the fish will often become lodged in the frogs throat by stabbing it in the mouth with spines .. choking the frog while corydora drowns.. which is a sad and painful death for BOTH..

This is taken straight from the "Can I keep other aquatic life with my ACF?" section:

Fish that should NOT be mixed with frogs

1. PLECOS, CORY CATS, CATFISH, or any type of fish with spines or barbs on its fins or body.
2. LARGE fish (Goldfish, Angelfish, Gouramis, etc.)
3. AGGRESSIVE fish (such as cichlids)
4. Crayfish
5. Newts, Salamanders, other amphibians of diffrent species, etc.
6. Turtles

So the site does point blank warn you to not house these species together. The bottom line is that ACF are highly predatory animals that can get as big as a human fist. ACF just don't belong with fish and the defensive spines of the corydora make it one of the worst possible pairings you can establish in you tank and 99.9% of the time will not end well.

When I decided to get african clawed frogs my LFS store told me to feed them flakes and keeping them with fish was fine as long as they were 'well fed'. I quickly found out that was a bunch of **** (there is no such thing as a well fed african clawed frog, they are opportunistic to the extreme and will eat anything at any time given half a chance).

Back when I bred (emphasis on I bred my own, feeder fish from fish stores are bad) feeder live bearing fish for my frogs I would place 6 fairly large mollies (please note: in hindsight a poor feeder fish, needs very hard and possibly even brackish water to thrive) in my frog tank and they were always gone by morning.. the frogs were only 6 months old and not even full sized adults. Now that they're getting close to 1 year old I couldn't imagine how quickly they'd run through 6 feeder fish.

Here's my frog 'Clyde' downing a 3 inch black molly when he was a scant 3 inches him(her)self on 9/20/12.


I personally love clawed frogs and corydoras, very neat animals.. I actually keep both in my home aquariums, in separate tanks.