Baby ADF

[Elliriyanna]

Do they look ok?

[mpmistr]

Do they look ok?

Looks a bit thin to me but that's pretty normal for newly purchased ADF. I would say if your frog is eating and is active i would not worry too much.

[Elliriyanna]

Could it also be that they are less than an inch ... actually they are about 1/2 inch and purchased from someone who raised them from eggs.

Do you think they would do better in my 5 gallon? Its not running a filter because I couldn't find one appropriate but I do regular water changes and we all know adf are not exactly messy.

Unless you have a recommendation on a filter, I do have several tanks I could cycle it in.

[mpmistr]

More water is better. It shouldn't be so deep the ADF cannot surface for air easily, since they're notoriously poor swimmers.

I think those Fluval U4 filters aren't bad (I use one with my ACF grow-out tank), though Whispers are cheaper and work fine too.

The only thing really "messy" about ADF is over feeding and leaving excess food in the tank, I would just avoid that since it fouls up the water pretty fast.

[Elliriyanna]

Its less than a foot deep. I just worry that it has sand substrate as its also my shrimp tank. I dont mind if they eat some there are lots of shrimp only hiding places.

is there anything more enticing I can feed them?