Clawed Frog Bloated

[rob2000]

I should also say, thank you all for your help. I am hoping this will really improve frogee's life with me and although we got off to a rough start, I am very happy that I was able to gather some great information.

I will keep updating until bloat decreases (hopefully). I may need some assistance in making sure the tank cycles properly.
I did not rinse his small housing cave on the last change to the 5gal so hopefully some good bacteria hung around.

[Felis]

Hi,

do you know anyone with a healthy, cycled tank? Then you could ask this person to give you some dirt from a matured filter to seed your tank with beneficial bacteria. However, this bacteria are aerobic and die off quickly, so the transport shouldn´t last longer than about one hour. You would still need to test the water in your frog´s new home, but this procedure greatly helps to shorten the cycling.

P.S.: I would recommend very robust plants such as Anubias sp. or Bolbitis heudelotii, and cheap, fast growing species (e.g. Ceratophyllum sp., Egeria sp., Lemna minor, Najas sp. etc. With floating plants, you don´t have problems with your frog displanting them ). Especially fast growing plants help to improve the water quality and provide hiding places for the frog. Thin-leafed plants are easily damaged by the frog´s claws and at least in my tank, they don´t do well. Personally I like Echinodorus very much, but they just don´t really work with my ACFs.