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african dwarf frogs
anyone have these? looking for information on them..i have read several websites about keeping temps around 77 and a ph of 7.1 and feeding the brime shrimp and blood worms...my dad bought my son 2 of them...but they didnt do no research on them first...if you have some can i see pics of your tanks with them?..thank you in advance..
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Re: african dwarf frogs
Well, if they were bought from Grow-a-Frog, you didn't get the dwarf ones. They sell them as that, but you get African clawed frogs instead. So instead of being a frog that grows 2-3 inches long and lives a couple years, you get a frog that grows more than twice that and lives in excess of forty years. I speak from experience.
Thankfully you can ID a dwarf frog from the African claweds. If both the front and back feet are webbed, then you have one of the dwarves. If only the back feet are webbed...well, you might need something bigger than a fishbowl.
That said, their care is pretty similar. I have no pictures handy but I keep the African clawed in a 5 gallon aquarium with a filter, plastic plants, and a couple hiding places that are sold for use with fish. I don't have substrate on the bottom because it makes cleaning easier. Two of the dwarf frogs should do fine in a 5 gal tank.
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I kept a couple of those guys for a long time! Their lifespan is supposed to be pretty short, but they lived with me for 2 1/2 to 3 years before I rehomed them. They were pretty bulletproof for me, kept a pair in a 5 gallon with no filtration but weekly water changes (was the same schedule as my goldfish so it was easy to do). Fed them frozen bloodworms every 3-5 days and siphoned out whatever they missed. I had aquarium gravel at the bottom but the feeding was always done over a little dish, eventually they learned that's where food appeared. The tank was pretty densly decorated so they had all sorts of nooks and crannies to hide in when they felt the need.
I didn't do any research though, that's just what worked for me. I'm glad to see you're looking up on their care, it really isn't complicated at all
Erica Evans
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Re: african dwarf frogs
well someone dumped a lot of fish food in the tank with them at my daughters birthday party...and we didnt realize it till the next day..and they were dead so...they lived 2 days....the only thing i could figure out is the dirty water killed them...or they were sick when my dad bought them from petsmart
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