African Clawed frog assistance

[Pippin]

I'll post a picture of her if I can get a good one on my phone tomorrow. She just holds it weird at the wrist. She still has mobility in it, she just doesn't sprawl her fingers wide, nor uses it in feeding. As for the tank I finished it this afternoon. A ten gallon really well planted tank with anubias, anacharsis, amazon sword, and a climbing sword (the one that looks like an underwater spider plant). I used very large smooth round river stones for substrate because I use an internal filter and the sand jams its impeller constantly in a 10 gallon. I did put a small flower pot in there for a hide if she wishes to use it, but she doesn't seem too interested. I'm not gonna get her a tank mate, she just has her big apple snail friend...who immediately savaged a baby climbing sword upon entering the tank. She seems to be adjusting well, fully taking advantage of the soft plants to lay in.

One concern I have now though is she doesn't take much interest in the reptomin pellets. She will greedily eat bloodworms, but they are not as nutritionally valuable. I tried feeding her reptomin today, (granted she just moved into the new tank) but she wasn't remotely interested in the reptomin. The snail was happy to clean up though. How should I get her to feed on them? I especially want her to have the extra calcium they add. Also as far as ghost shrimp in their diet how nutritional are they?

[Pippin]

[Pippin]

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[Pippin]

Sorry all of those pictures are separate, I am not as tech savvy as I should be. Anyways that is Nosseum, my special clawed frog. Notice her left wrist (the one closest to the bottom of the two pictures. She doesn't keep her fingers taught like her other hand. Also does she seem underweight? I have always had fat clawed frogs but she is picky and doesn't get very fat (or she will after a big meal, but then won't eat for a while and gets back to that weight).

The bottom picture is of her new tank, you can see her feet behind the sword plant at the front left, and the snail in the middle of the tank. (Its hard to make out the perspective, but the snail is actually bigger than her.) Sorry the picture looks dirty, the tank was wet on the outside and bubbly on the inside from just being established. I promise it is a very clean tank.

[froggin]

Notice her left wrist (the one closest to the bottom of the two pictures. She doesn't keep her fingers taught like her other hand. Also does she seem underweight? I have always had fat clawed frogs but she is picky and doesn't get very fat (or she will after a big meal, but then won't eat for a while and gets back to that weight).

the snail in the middle of the tank.

Must be a bit hard for her to eat as they use hands when eating. As for her body shape, how old is she? My females were like that when they were young. Is there no possibility that she cannot gain weight due to some parasites? Some snails carry parasites. In the wild, frogs often have parasites and they are fine usually. But in captivity, parasites can be harmful especially when the frog's immune system is weak.

[Pippin]

She is probably about 2 now, little more little less, I can't exactly remember when I got her. But I have had her since she was a froglet so I doubt she has any parasites, I have never fed her anything that could carry them. Her only other tank mate is that snail, and I have had it forever, and its not seeping parasites into the water resident evil style...or I hope its not. (I am currently mad at it cause I awoke to find it had eaten both of my sword plants, roots, shoots and all, in one night! It ate 6 pellets of reptomin just yesterday afternoon!)

I guess I should have rephrased Noseeum's weight gain issue. She will gladly stay fat and happy off of the poor diet of frozen bloodworms and sinking shrimp pellets, but when I try to give her reptomin or anything else nutritionally beneficial she will refuse to eat it and lose weight until I give her the frozen junkfood again. I am afraid she as gotten spoiled off of the frozen cubed food, she also won't eat anything that floats. (I can't find sinking reptomin) Shes not even fond of the pelleted food right now (but I think that is because she doesn't shovel it into her mouth as well with her hurt hand) So is there anything I can entice her with that will fill the gap in her diet right now? She loves frozen cubed food, it has to sink, she will eat live things, but I think it will be difficult for her to hunt right now.


One more very distant future kind of thing, has anybody tried keeping large bamboo shrimp with clawed frogs before? They are filter feeders that clean the water, and seem too large to be eaten (at least by juveniles) and they have no interest (nor capability) of harming the frogs. I am just curious if they can live with clawed frogs, or at least if anybody has tried.

[froggin]

she doesn't take much interest in the reptomin pellets. She will greedily eat bloodworms,

I had the same problem before. It took a week to make my ACFs eat Reptomin.