Dwarf African Clawed Frog feeding on TetraPrima

[utubes4u]

cool little beasties

[utubes4u]

how much do the frogs sell for?

[profquatermass]

@utubes4u - Not more than a couple of quid, £5 at most.

[chellegirl123]

I just bought one of these cute froggy's from Petco. They didnt tell me squat about how to take care of it >:( "They eat fish flakes" No! She didnt even ask if I had a cycled tank! "They are as easy as taking care of goldfish"...those things die on whim! I dont want my froggy dying so until I have time to set up a nice aquarium when I move out of the dorms this summer froggy is going to be a bit stressed but he will have 100% fresh filtered water every day! I thought I could plop it in h20.nope!

[ProfStuartHalliday]

@chellegirl123 - Go to the web site The Aquarium Wiki Encyclopaedia and type in "DAF". You'll get a comprehensive and accurate care sheet for your frog. :)

[PriestessDemon]

i have a filter that came with the tank so im also using that they (at the store) told me to use bottled spring water only when cleaning and filling the tank and they gave me small little pellet like things for food although they say 4 pellets 2 for each frog they seem to need more then that should i feed them something else or stick with the stuff they gave me which means they need to have more then 2 pellets each?

[profquatermass]

Frogs will eat and eat until they'll burst.

Don't let them. You'll get fat, ill, bloated and probably dead frogs in the end.

I've got a comprehensive fact sheet I built on DAFs on The Aquarium Wiki Encyclopaedia web site. Go to that site and search for 'DAFS'. Read the food section.

Then join the hundreds of DAF owners on the Yahoo group 'DwarfAfricanFrogs'.

[PriestessDemon]

anyways my question is this someone was telling me i could use nutrafin waste control for the tank and that it would help to keep it clean besides changing the water once a week is this true can i use it? also the tank is a fish tank and it has a light should i leave this light on for a full 12 hours and do i really need to keep the bamboo plant that came with it since i see some of it is turning brown?

[profquatermass]

Yes it does. I use this. But it sounds like you've got a "death cube". Get the frog in a proper tank of ~10 gallons in size.

Don't leave the light on so long. 8-9 hours is enough. If you have the frog in a proper filtered tank get rid of the bamboo plant.

This isn't the place to discuss how to care for your frog. Go to Yahoo groups and join the "DwarfAfricanFrogs" group. We're getting a lot of cube owners joining.

[profquatermass]

Well I never said it was a African Clawed Frog as that is Xenopus laevis

But the official common name is what the discoverer calls it - African Dwarf Clawed Frog.

In the UK we tend to call it the Dwarf African Clawed Frog or just DAF. The Aquarium retail trade make up their own names. I've seen them on sale as Marble Frogs.

But I've also seen them listed as : Dwarf Clawed Frog, Zaire Dwarf Clawed Frog, Eastern Dwarf Clawed Frog, Gaboon Dwarf Clawed Frog, Western Dwarf Clawed Frog.

Cute.

[xxlildgurlxx]

He's so fat!  Holy crap!

[profquatermass]

No, she's not fat! The female looks big because they hold their egg making organs on each side.

I've seen a lot of obese DAFs though, people will insist in feeding every day once they're over a year old. :-)

[ryuuka156]

question, can dwarf frogs live with comet goldfish?

[profquatermass]

Possibly if you keep the water temperature above ~24C and the goldfish are small.

Though goldfish generally need to mostly eat low protein vegetables and DAFs need meat so not terribly compatible as you'll get filter and ammonia problems due to excess protein in the water.

[monstercoskater]

your frog looks obese compared to mine, but it still is cute.

i had two at one point, but one died . :/ i'll guess that it was Chytrid Fungus because it died after 6 months.

[profquatermass]

CF kills after 3 months, so not CF sorry.

Female DAFs do look rather fat. It's their egg sacs they carry about.

[profquatermass]

Any decent pet shop will sell them.

Just watch it if you're in USA or Canada as these frogs are usually infected with Chytrid Fungus and die after 3 months.

See The Aquarium Wiki Encyclopaedia web site. Just type in 'CF' in the search box.

Big problem worldwide this fungus sadly.

[pl00oui]

where did you gwt it

[profquatermass]

Well they do all look very alike.

[free2rhyme66789]

I had 3 with some kribensis, bad mix, they ate 2 of them and I brought the last one back to the pet store

[profquatermass]

Kribensis are very territorial and will guard their bottom area of the substrate. So big surprise there.

Always do your research away from the shop. Shop assistants tend to be ignorant or dishonest when it comes to customers buying stock.

[smokescreenstar]

ADF's are not clawed

[profquatermass]

Sorry but you're wrong.

They have tiny black claws on their feet. That is their correct and full common name - Dwarf African Clawed Frogs - Hymenochirus boettgeri.

Just google this species name and you can see for yourself.

Admittedly these claws often break off as the frog becomes a full adult. But that's because of the way we keep them. In the wild they live in muddy substrate. But we like to keep them in tanks with small pebbles.

[jumpstart4418]

I have a dwarf frog, it's soo cool to watch it.