One Year of Keeping African Clawed Frogs!

[mpmistr]

I thought I may put up some updated pictures! I did a nice 75% water change just for the heck of it today to get the nitrates nice and low and I removed 90% of the duckweed.

My plants are growing pretty well and the tank has filled out nicely. It's still not perfect (to me) of course and I would like to upgrade my 40B to a BIG tank (thinking 125 gallons+) but I have to wait because my landlord informed me that aquariums violate the lease for my townhouse which I recently relocated to be closer to work ... *seriously* ... so I am stuck with what I have until I buy a house (I was able to talk them into letting me keep my current tanks).

I am pretty sure I have three plump lady frogs because none have 'dirty hands' though my albino did for a while but now he (she) doesn't and I've not heard a single peep from my frogs. So no dirty hands and no mating call I have to assume it's a trio of females.



Everyone is pleasantly plump and they all probably need to go on a diet.. these guys down nightcrawlers, crickets, and reptomin at a ravenous pace.

So in one year I've gone from a 20 gallon tall with frogs in an uncycled tank with ammonia, learning that large rock substrate sucks and sand is better, having my albino frog jump out of the tank and go on an adventure, a thermometer exploding in my tank and cutting my hand and making a huge mess.. and probably other tribulations trying to educate myself having to keep these crazy little guys..



This seems like a lifetime ago, they certainly grow up fast..!

[rodsboys]

Good post ABG great pics, tank is looking good. Glad you learned as you went, some people never get it.

[Namio]

Beautiful tank and frogs!

[Felis]

Hi,

I really like your tank and I think your frogs won´t mind to stay in there

At this age, it should be quite easy to determine their sex when looking at their cloacal region:


Female:


Male:

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

I am really jealous.
I wish I could have at least a pair of ACF's But I can't buy them in NC

[SwimminSteve]

Beautiful tank! What kind of sand do you have? And what is your lighting set up?

[mpmistr]

They definitely all females judging by their cloaca. I hope to add a male some day.

The sand is CaribSea Moonlight sand, it's pure white and the smallest/smoothest grain sand I could find. It's very nice but it kicks up easily and I think it may be the cause of my never ending diatom problems. I think when I get a larger tank I will be using the next step up sand from CaribSea as far as granule size which is Sunset Gold (I use this in another tank, also good sand). I get the feeling my sand is more for a marine aquarium but the pH has been a stable 7.4 but I do get the feeling it does leech silicates, the frogs haven't minded though I just need to clean it with my magnetic glass cleaner. My other tank does not have diatoms (I battle green hair algae on that tank lol).

The lights are a Finnex 36" DS LED strip. It's very bright, I used a plastic sheet (like the ones used under florescent lights) to diffuse the light so the frogs vision is not impaired. Sadly half the strip stopped working today so I had to use an auxiliary light from another tank until I replace or get it repaired.. so there's a 24" Finnex strip on there now, which should be enough light to at least keep the plants alive.

Thank you for all the compliments!