Need help with african dwarf frogs please!

[Doug]

Is that the only food you feed her? A mostly bloodworm diet for ADF is risky from what I learned over the years-- not to mention a bloodworm diet is not balanced. I conditioned my ADF to eat mostly xenopus food pellets.

Is there a slight cloudy "tinge" to the water? Even with filtration, I sometimes had this problem. My ADF would get sick until I cleared it up with sponge / aerator filter. Are you rinsing the biomax and sponge with chlorine FREE water, or tapwater? You do not want to rinse the bio-filter with tap water as it will kill the beneficial bacteria.

[hannahthedog]

Theirs no cloudyness to the water, and yes I make sure it is chlorine free and I rinse it in old tank water in a bowl so it won't kill the beneficial bacteria. I tried to feed them a variety of different frozen foods, but they weren't interested except for the blood worms, I have been looking for pellets to feed them. But I am not sure on what to get. Also the frog died yesterday, I looked at her belly and saw she had a slight red coloring from her mouth down to her stomach. Her eyes were very cloudy looking,I believe it was a bacterial infection. I still have one frog left, hes hanging around on the bottom of the tank being himself. I will order pellets today to feed the male frog. thank you.

[hannahthedog]

I have frog bites on the way now.

[Mentat]

Hello and welcome to FF! Appears the wounded frog increased the number of pathogenic bacteria to a level that is killing all fish and frogs in the tank. From reading your post the aquariums was never treated right? Can you get some Melafix & Pimafix and treat aquarium with both daily according to label directions for 7 days? Also, do weekly water changes versus every other week. Good luck !

[Doug]

I really think the mostly bloodworm diet may have been the trigger.

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