Quote Originally Posted by Chunky Monkey View Post
I read somewhere you shouldn't have more than 6 or 12 inches of water in the tank.

Super old thread but Chunky Monkey, ACF should have as much water volume as you can allow in your aquarium due to their inclination to foul the water very quickly. Keeping the water too low means less water which means you'll need more frequent partial water changes which would be unnecessary.

Your water depth can be 12" or even higher depending in the size of your tank, just lower the water level enough for your frog to have space surface to breathe and perhaps even a bit lower to reduce the chance your ACF will escape, some thing that they happen to excel at unfortunately.

Small froglets may not like water over 12" in depth so feel free to lower it for small juveniles if needed, but adults are fine and are surprisingly powerful swimmers. I kept froglets in water about 14" and I never had a problem, in fact they could surface for air and hit the substrate so fast if you blinked you'd miss it, these guys can swim. I believe the water depth issue mistakenly attributed to ACF because they are often confused with ADF (African Dwarf Frogs, Hymenochirus) which are also aquatic frogs but much smaller, they are very weak swimmers and could easily drown in a deep water aquarium.

I would recommend a 3" to 4" reduction in water level and a tight fitting aquarium hood with no gaps, floating plants such as indian fern (water sprite) also reduce jumping behavior.