Any fish that are compatible with ACFs?

[Chunky Monkey]

I hate 3 males and 1 female, and one of the males is quite bigger than the rest of the frogs. I want to have a fish in the tank but I've seen personally how aggressive the frogs can be to fish. Any suggestions?

[mpmistr]

The disappearance of fish or a maimed clawed frog are the usual result of mixing these african clawed frogs and (most) fish commonly sold in the aquarium trade..

You answered your own question. The frogs are predatory and will eat any fish it can and the fish it cannot eat tend to be predatory and in return, are usually dangerous to the frogs.

You could try live bearing fish which are easily replaced since they breed very quickly. You would need a separate tank for the fish to breed and you would be effectively just feeding them to your frogs. The fish won't exactly have a great life, being constantly preyed upon and devoured by 4 ravenous clawed frogs. If you do go this route just avoid Mollies since they tend to get parasites (prone to calamus worms) / sickly and just don't well without brackish water, long term. These fish will not survive long with four frogs. Also keep in mind most tropical fish simply need warmer water than X. Laevis enjoy (which is around 70F), so being hunted relentlessly by gluttonous frogs aside, they won't enjoy the cold temps clawed frogs prefer either.

Other fish are simply too aggressive, fish like Cichlids are extremely territorial and will harass the frogs to death.

Assuming you actually want to keep fish and simply do not want to raise feeders for the frogs I'm not sure what fish would really work. I guess larger goldfish could but how big is this tank? Goldfish need a lot of water, so do the frogs. You'd need a large system.

Whatever you do, for the sake of your frogs avoid armored catfish of any kind. Corydora, Plecos, Otos are all armored fish that have spines, if your frog snags one, good chance it will choke and both animals will suffocate/drown.

[Mentat]

Agree with Michael !

[Necromencer]

Agree with Michael !

I agree too, but there is one thing I would like to say from experience.

Even with a large tank (260L), a goldfish is still going to be attacked by the frogs. I have a pair of Silurana Tropicalis (smaller than ACF) and I had to put the goldfish in the tank for a while, and in the short time it was in there, the frogs had tried to attack her and she had lost some scales. So the tank would have to be astronomically big to have a goldfish.


I keep tetras with my frogs, I originally bought 15, a month ago, now I have 5. I think that says it all..

[Chunky Monkey]

What about any fish that I can feed to the frogs, besides ones that shouldn't be fed to them like goldfish? Like any specific species they naturally eat and don't have thiaminase?

[Chunky Monkey]

And if they did eat a fish how do they digest the spine or do they spit that out?