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[celticstarb]

Try picking up some frozen blood worms for your dwarfs.. They will go crazy for blood worms! I also use live California black worms. Black worms are fairly easy to culture and will stay alive in your tank until the frogs eat them.

The clawed frogs will relish night crawlers. Just cut a worm into 1 inch sections and feed it to your clawed frogs. A varied diet will help them survive to adulthood.

As far as cycling, the bacteria that convert ammonia will establish before the ones that convert nitrites. Unfortunately, the water changes are counterproductive to the tank cycling. In order for the bacteria to establish, they need to eat; and they eat ammonia and nitrites. So seeing some ammonia and nitrites is good for the bacteria, but bad for the frogs. Have you tested for nitrates? If you have nitrates, then you have a partial cycle, and hopefully it shouldn't take too much longer to have the tank fully cycled.

[eati]

Just a quick update as I have to head to work ...

I've been feeding a variety of frozen foods for the last few days to my dwarfs ... picked up a freshwater variety pack [bloodworms, brine shrimp, Feeding Frenzy, Emerald Green]. The one dwarf frog eats anything eagerly. The others, bloodworms seem to be the best but they lose interest after a few worms.

I've not tested water nor changed water for the last couple of days, and lost 2 more dwarf frogs. Honestly, I'm not sure if I will "survive" this (and keep frogs). I will probably test water tonight.

[eati]

Just tested the water for ammonia and nitrite. Ammonia levels are zero or close to zero in both tanks, it looks like nitrite is at least 2 ppm in my 28-gallon (clawed frogs), and 4 - 5 ppm in my 10-gallon (dwarf frogs). This is using API test kits. I will test nitrate later, but expect there to be at least some due to I put media from cycled tanks in the filters. My tap water tested at 5 ppm for nitrate.

I'm going to the LFS and seeing what they say about this and my fish issues, and go from there. Yesterday's frog death hit me hard, especially since I feel I have been trying my best to address the water issues when I found out about it, and trying my best to make sure all frogs eat.

[eati]

As best as I can tell, nitrate in my 10 is around 10 ppm, and nitrate in my 28 is around 5 ppm. Not sure what to think ... would have expected it a little higher if the media I put in originally still had live bacteria (did sit for several hours in the water from my filter in a container before I set up the tanks).

[eati]

freshwater variety pack [bloodworms, brine shrimp, Feeding Frenzy, Emerald Green]. The one dwarf frog eats anything eagerly. The others, bloodworms seem to be the best but they lose interest after a few worms.

Freshwater Frenzy and Emerald Entree should be the last two ones, lol. Tonight's feeding was 100% bloodworms with the feeding response ... "Ms. Hungry" gorging herself (I say she because I suspect it is a female, but don't know), 2 of them getting a few bloodworms then losing interest, and the other one didn't seem interested at all. I get this gut feeling I may have just one dwarf frog (if that) survive the cycling.