2 African Dwarf Frogs eating dinner

FINALLY got a shot of both of my frogs eating/searching for dinner.

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• african
• dwarf
• frogs
• dinner
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[dalvishyu1]

I got my frog couple days ago...n ive been feeding pellet type frog food as petsmart guy suggested. but, my frog DOESN'T eat pellet. had to go get some frozen bloodworm n hand feed. how can i make my froggy to eat pellet...??

[dehbee]

@dalvishyu1 in the beginning i would tediously wiggle the pellet in the frogs face with a chopstick. it seem to work for me...no guarantees though!

[HobbyKing1000]

i Just bought mine like literally put them in the tank 5 min ago i have shrimp pellets i was wandering what else should i get and should i hand feed them or what? And how ofter do they eat?

[dehbee]

@HobbyKing1000 if the pellets fall to the bottom of the tank, the frog should be able to find it. it helps if you try to wiggle the food in its face. they have terrible eye sight. wiggle the pellet with a thin stick. i use to tediously do this before my current tank. some people get live blood worms. this is great if you dont have any fish! the fish will eat everything before your frog can get anything. it also helps to have a flat feeding area so the worms/food cant get stuck in the gravel.

[OceanFishLover]

how long does it take for a frog to get that big????

[TTerror97]

@HobbyKing1000 If you have fish one way to feed bloodworms (i'm warning you, after they eat the bloodworms they may think it's so good that they stop eating any other food) to your frogs is get those giant reptile feeding tweezers and use those. At first, they may be shy about eating from them but now mine comes and sits on the leaf of my live plant when it's feeding time and takes the stuff from the tweezers as soon as it hits the water.

[SteffersFavourites]

I always have to pipette feed my frogs. with worms, I wiggle them in front of them. They seem to only eat things that move or are from the pipette. xD

[dehbee]

@jake247Y ive been feeding them the pellets (i believe the same one as you got) out of convenience. its hard feeding them anything else since theyre not the fastest at finding food, and they have competition with fish. its probably healthiest to feed them a varied diet....but thats ALOT easier with just the frogs. fish will always beat them when it comes to finding food.

[jake247Y]

@dehbee thanks i got mine like a week ago thats probably why. and what are you feeding them? i bought hbh frog and tadpole bites at the store and also bought bloodworms. but do pellet foods like that keep the frog alive really long? thanks for all of your help.

[dehbee]

@jake247Y i think it actually has alot to do with personality. one of my frogs is always out in the open and really outgoing. didnt scare easily. the other was always hiding. i never saw him most of the time. he was really jumpy and scared easily. usually if you just got them, they will be more shy. after some time they should feel more comfortable and start exploring more. gl, hope that was helpful.