Red Leg?

[NJfrogger]

Thank you, glad to hear it isn't just me with this issue. I don't have a gravel vacuum but will most likely get one soon. How exactly do you use just the airline, because I do have that! I found some great articles on Do It Yourself things for fish tanks, and I usually feed him with a long tweezer, so any uneaten food is taken out after a few minutes if he doesn't eat it from the tweezer. I am currently trying to train him to come to the top to eat, but that has yet to happen.

OH and by the way, he ate a little more than half the Reptomin stick today I was so proud. I read that Adults should be eating 2/3, he ate 1/2...he wouldn't eat the other half but I suppose one is better than none.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Since you are policing up the uneaten food pretty quickly the tweezers there is no need for a
improv gravel vac.
But if the need ever arises you can use a small wooden dowel with the airline attached to it so you can easily direct the end of the
hose where the debris is and suck it out.

you just need a bucket for the water, fill the line with water and put your finger over the loose end and put the other end in the tank
and put the bucket on the floor and put the other end with you finger over it in the bucket and let it go and keep that end in the bucket.
Or you will have a mess to clean up.

That is the easy way to start a siphon.

vacuum the gravel before you do the water change. Let the old water do some work for you.
then unplug the filter and rinse out the filter in the old water.
that way you don't kill off any of the good bacteria in the filter , just getting rid of some of the
solid wastes that your filter picked up.

A lot of people rinse out their filter in the sink with cool water, but that water has chlorine in it unless you have a well.
Being in Jersey that is a very remote chance.

[NJfrogger]

Just wanted to update.

My little frog died a few hours ago. I went to school..normally. Came home and he was on the substrate ...just dead. I am kind of in shock actually. He had been doing very well. Eating the Reptomin pellets like a champ. He even was shedding and had eaten in yesterday. My dad checked the water with some kit he got at the Petshop and said the water was fine..don't know the exact specs but he knows how to take care of aquariums. He was in 10 gallon filtered and CLEAN tank. Just did a 25% water change 2 days ago. I just really don't get it. I tried to do everything correctly and he just didn't make it. Don't think I'll be keeping frogs again for awhile. Maybe it was all the bloodworms? He doesn't look bloated though. I just don't really know and I feel bad for him that he got stuck with an inexperienced person but I did really try.

[LeClownBlanc]

Just wanted to update.

My little frog died a few hours ago. I went to school..normally. Came home and he was on the substrate ...just dead. I am kind of in shock actually. He had been doing very well. Eating the Reptomin pellets like a champ. He even was shedding and had eaten in yesterday. My dad checked the water with some kit he got at the Petshop and said the water was fine..don't know the exact specs but he knows how to take care of aquariums. He was in 10 gallon filtered and CLEAN tank. Just did a 25% water change 2 days ago. I just really don't get it. I tried to do everything correctly and he just didn't make it. Don't think I'll be keeping frogs again for awhile. Maybe it was all the bloodworms? He doesn't look bloated though. I just don't really know and I feel bad for him that he got stuck with an inexperienced person but I did really try.

I'm sorry about your frog. It may have been the food, as bloodworms are a little fatty and could cause some disease. I wouldn't give up on taking care of frogs just yet. I have only had mine for a few months and I enjoy watching them get up to things or swim around the aquarium.

Did you cycle your tank? Or at least use Seachem Stability? Both are really important and can cause a sudden tank death.