ACF Threw Up?

[SailAwayAK]

I wouldn't be to worried about it. They use a hyobranchial pump, like fish, to inhale the food because they don't have tongues. Often times the frogs just get things in there the wrong way. They will pump it out and then eat it again. I have seen it happen plenty of times with foods they knowingly love.

You are doing a great job taking care of them with water changes, care, feedings. Sometimes they are just like kids. They just chuck it out. :P If you get over concerned about the little guy you can always get him his own tank. I wouldn't think you are in that kind of situation at all. I know one of my frogs eats less than the others. One eats more. *shrugs* they do what they do. I had one male who sang all night and one who never did. When one passed away it seems I am left with the one who doesn't sing. *shrugs*

[mpmistr]

I wouldn't be to worried about it. They use a hyobranchial pump, like fish, to inhale the food because they don't have tongues. Often times the frogs just get things in there the wrong way. They will pump it out and then eat it again. I have seen it happen plenty of times with foods they knowingly love.

You are doing a great job taking care of them with water changes, care, feedings. Sometimes they are just like kids. They just chuck it out. :P If you get over concerned about the little guy you can always get him his own tank. I wouldn't think you are in that kind of situation at all. I know one of my frogs eats less than the others. One eats more. *shrugs* they do what they do. I had one male who sang all night and one who never did. When one passed away it seems I am left with the one who doesn't sing. *shrugs*

He seems okay to me. He's very active and his appetite is pretty much endless like my other frog, both my frogs scour the tank for food for about an hour after I feed them (maybe I am not feeding enougn? lol). I guess I won't worry about it.

It's true they don't seem to all act the same.

Quick question. I've set up a 55g tank full of guppies.. the guppies make fry. I put some fry in 20g where the frogs are housed.. they're not overly successful at eating them. They've only managed to eat one, cause it swam right in front of my larger albino ACF. Since they are more or less newborn fry, I assume this is a healthy snack with no risk of parasites or disease?

I would think that these frogs would enjoy the ability of catching prey but I'd like to do it safe. The fry have a lot of space to hide, my tank has live daphnia so the fry are eating (and growing), they aren't ravaged immediately or anything. Some of my fry have been living in the tank several weeks (they live in the pennywort growing up top).

Bad idea? Good idea?

[SailAwayAK]

I would make sure you get a good 30 quarantine on the fish you set into any other tank. Some places say 40 days. I tend to do 30 if there is no incidences of illness in the tank, then they are good to go. Nom Nom Nom

Sounds like you have a nice set up with places for fry and frogs to hide. Guppies sound happy in their tank i they are dropping young too. I found that if I kept feeding the frogs each day guppies didn't disappear much. You may find some fry and such missing when you do. It doesn't hurt them, the frogs, and certainly makes things more challenging for the them. Brings out the scavenging instinct. Remember that you can fast the frogs as well. I do this with my fish tanks too. I usually do not feed on weekends. It works well for me because then I don't have to go to the school on weekends when I have them in classroom. Some weekends we would come back to class and find guppies missing.

Piggy, on of our frogs would eat herself to death if I let her. She is the one who has had some bloat before. She is also the escape artist. We lost her last week after she found a way to get out of the cord opening on the tank. I found her the next morning. I was pretty sad. The lasted another 12 hours and was gone.

[mpmistr]

I would make sure you get a good 30 quarantine on the fish you set into any other tank. Some places say 40 days. I tend to do 30 if there is no incidences of illness in the tank, then they are good to go. Nom Nom Nom

Sounds like you have a nice set up with places for fry and frogs to hide. Guppies sound happy in their tank i they are dropping young too. I found that if I kept feeding the frogs each day guppies didn't disappear much. You may find some fry and such missing when you do. It doesn't hurt them, the frogs, and certainly makes things more challenging for the them. Brings out the scavenging instinct. Remember that you can fast the frogs as well. I do this with my fish tanks too. I usually do not feed on weekends. It works well for me because then I don't have to go to the school on weekends when I have them in classroom. Some weekends we would come back to class and find guppies missing.

Piggy, on of our frogs would eat herself to death if I let her. She is the one who has had some bloat before. She is also the escape artist. We lost her last week after she found a way to get out of the cord opening on the tank. I found her the next morning. I was pretty sad. The lasted another 12 hours and was gone.

The 55g with the guppies has been up for about a month without issues, they were not feeders just normal priced guppies. I have only 6 females and 3 males. Not really anything close to overstocked lol.

I've read about escape stories. I really get the feeling keeping the water depth 4 inches lower from the top and running a canister filter is the way to go. I currently run two HOB filters. I keep my water near the top of the aquarium, maybe 1 inch off. I made a soda bottle baffle for the HOB filter and the other one is a Whisper and doesn't make much current.

I would like to move the frogs to the 55g.. it has 21" depth, I was thinking about only filling it maybe 16" high though and picking up a nice canister.. I would imagine a frog cannot clear 4 inches and jump out. Would I even need a lid? My LED lights clip on the tank, so I don't need anything for the lights to rest on, technically. I was REALLY wanting to do a riparium type of tank once I have the proper lighting and equipment.