In deeper water, clawed frogs struggle to reach the surface and may drown. As mentioned earlier, your tank should not be less than ten gallons in size or deeper than 12 inches.
These animals thrive around room temperature, with an optimal range of 65 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Never expose them to chlorine always use distilled water as opposed to tap water. The substrate is the material that covers the base of an aquarium. It helps to absorb detritus and support a community of helpful microorganisms. Only use gravel with medium or large particles , as these are difficult to ingest. Never use sand or small-particle gravel as a substrate for clawed frogs.
Also, ensure that your aquarium gravel is rinsed thoroughly before use. A filtration system is not essential if water is changed regularly. Gentle filtration can help to maintain water quality and keep your tank clean.
Provide a variety of aquarium-safe hides such as caves or tunnels to help your frog feel safe. Plants are another great tool to introduce hiding places to an aquarium. They also add to the visual appeal of your tank. These frogs are voracious predators and will eat anything small enough to fit in their mouths, including fish, crustaceans, and other amphibians. They do require regular water changes and tank maintenance.
For their size, they can produce a fair amount of waste. Remember to use distilled or dechlorinated water ONLY. During each weekly water change, use an aquarium siphon to clean detritus from your gravel substrate. They have slightly different dietary needs from other terrestrial amphibians. As with most animals, offering a diverse variety of foods is key to good health and longevity. In addition to — or in place of — a pellet-based diet, you can feed your frogs a mix of the following:.
As occasional treats, you can also offer waxworms, earthworms, or small feeder fish. Live foods as opposed to thawed options invoke a stronger feeding response and provide behavioral enrichment. We recommend a mix of both for your clawed frogs.
African clawed frogs are a hardy species overall. They do well in captivity and are resistant to disease. Like any animal, however, they can encounter some health issues that need to be kept in check. This fluid may even have seemed to appear overnight and makes your frog very uncomfortable. They should be fed times a week with a varied diet of appropriately sized prey items, such as earthworms, wax worms, small feeder fish and turtle pellets.
This means your tank is cycled has good bacteria , since an uncycled tank causes spontaneous ammonia and nitrite spikes that can kill your frogs.
While most frogs will not tolerate regular handling, there is still plenty of opportunities to enjoy your pet frogs! Unlike dogs, cats, birds, fish, or small mammals, most pet frogs are fine with being fed times a week.
Red-Leg is often fatal — there is no known cure for it. MBD is usually curable if it is treated right away. In Alaska, wood frogs go eight months without peeing. And scientists have now figured out how they do it, or more accurately, how they survive without doing it. The answer is yes. Pacman Frogs do not mind biting anything that appears to be threatening to them.
Albino frogs are a fairly common occurance with frogs It seems to happen with many different species of frogs and should not be taken to mean that your frog is sick. Albinism is a condition caused by a recessive gene which causes a person or animal to be born lacking normal pigmentation. Adult frogs can survive for extended periods 3—4 weeks without feeding if their quarters are clean, but long-term survival requires feeding the equivalent of 10—12 full-grown crickets two to three times a week.
Most people start with a 10 gallon tank, which is big enough to host a small community of frogs. You can also use a 20 gallon tank but, make sure the water is not too deep so your frogs can easily swim up for air.
Salts and minerals are usually added after the water has been treated, making it a great option for frogs. This is generally considered a safe method and is common practice among amphibian keepers.
Feeding your African clawed frog is one of the most enjoyable aspects of owning one. You have plenty of options when feeding your pet. You can also feed them waxworms, minnows and other feeder fish, bloodworms, and earthworms. Nearly any kind of organic food material, dead or alive, floating near your African clawed frog will be consumed. Whatever you choose, remember that a balanced diet is best. Feed them a variety of food and they will remain healthy.
As far as how much you feed them largely depends on their age and size. I suggest only feeding them what they will eat in roughly 30 minutes and feed them daily. Overeating is less of a problem than undereating; When they are full, in most cases, they will simply stop eating.
In the wild African clawed frogs lay eggs during the rainy season; from late winter into the springtime. In captivity, however, they often reproduce spontaneously. Males are smaller , sporting slim legs and a nuptial pad on their forearms which is black in coloration after reaching maturity. Simulating a spring-time rainstorm is a sure-fire way to help your frogs reproduce. In order to simulate spring rain, most keepers will lower the temperature of the water to 65 — 68 degrees Fahrenheit and allow the water level to drop a few inches.
These conditions are held for 30 — 45 days. Meanwhile, clean their enclosure by doing partial water changes. After 4 — 6 weeks, increase the water temperature to 75 — 80 degrees Fahrenheit and increase the water level back to normal. This will simulate a spring-time flood and should induce reproduction.
I suggest doing this before nighttime. After you increase the temperature and water level, shut the lights off and leave them alone. Darkness gives them a sense of security which is always an added benefit. Once the mood is right, so-to-speak, the male frog will call out to the female. The sound is best described as a cricket under water.
Sometimes this call also accompanied by a dance. In return, the female will respond with a clicking noise. A female can lay hundreds of eggs and the entire process can last from two hours to two days.
African clawed frogs, when hungry, have been known to eat their own eggs. Place them in a separate tank with clean water at a temperature of 80 — 82 degrees. These eggs will hatch in 48 — 96 hours. The new African clawed frog tadpoles will feed on micro-organisms and will transform into froglets in about two months.
Be mindful not to stress them and avoid handling them as much as possible. This can be an enjoyable aspect instead of handling.
Join our Newsletter! We take your privacy seriously! No spam, we promise. See our Privacy Policy. I love your site! We have a year-old ACF that we raised from a tadpole. She seems way more interested in us people than previously — like she literally swims over every time I enter the room now.
Should I give my big, old gal a new kid sister, or just try to fill the void of her missing tank mates with more human attention? Hey, thanks! Even then, it would be worth keeping a close eye on the two for several days following.
Hi, My Albino clawed frog juat ate a bunch of blanched spinach…its the first time she has ever taken the snails food…shes a well fed girl…will this harm her in anyway? Hey I just recently rescued one of these cute guys from somebody. It seems to be super under weight and smaller than it should be. Hey Cheyenne! Try feeding the rescued ACF a variety of good, quality foods. A mixture of bloodworms, feeder fish, pellets, etc! Good luck! I have had two African Clawed Frogs in a five gallon tank, and they have been thriving and healthy for nearly four years.
I got them for my birthday when I turned ten. I got them from Grow a Frog when they were tadpoles, and they seem really happy together. I have one female, named Fredrieka, and one male, named Kermit. I have seen them mate before, but I was wondering if there was a way for me to get them to have tadpoles. I was also wondering how, or if I could make them a little bit happier. Thank you! I like their names! Have you tried simulating a breeding season yet? Check the breeding section of this post — link here.
That should get you headed in the right direction! Hey John! I am planning on getting an ACF in the next week or so and am struggling with finding the right size gravel online.
Any links to some good medium sized gravel? Hi, Emily! You can always go without gravel until you get the chance to browse a local pet store! I have one ACF in a 10g with a couple of fish. About to upgrade to a 29g. What fish are best for the frog? I want some more clean up crew. I was thinking a catfish? Maybe a bristlenose? A catfish will eventually get too big lol. The aqua store advised me to take coral pebbles to soften the water.
Is this vital for them. Are they really useful for them because it naturally crumbles and there is dust. Should i remove them? It depends on how hard your water is to begin with.
On the other hand, he might have been hired last week with no real knowledge of how to care for pets lol. Untreated tap water often contains chlorine or chloramines. Use a dechlorination agent or allow the water to sit out for 24 hours before using that water. The water source you begin with might not need to be softened. I usually feed him about 4 in the morning and 4 in the night is that enough?
I definitely recommend upgrading his enclosure! Yes, you can add another ACF. Be careful how you do this though. The adult will likely kill the small one. What you really need to watch is their size. My son has a ACF about 10 years now. We just moved her to a 20 gallon tank and now has a heater and filter. Since we moved her she had started laying eggs.
We have never seen this before and wondering what we need to do. What type of sanitation crew would work with my Queen Nefertiti and her mate Oshun? They are in a 25 gallon tank, with 5 recently added Malaysian snails. My ACF laid eggs the other night. I had got them moved into a separate tank and now instead of circles they look like little grains of rice. I have had an ACF for about 2 years now in a 55 gal.
Do you know what it might mean? The frog seems healthy and happy. Could it just be happier than it was before? Or would it be a sign of stress from the move? My guess is that the temperature of the water is more suitable to their liking! Could this be accurate? I have had my ACF for a few months now in a 35gal, and he has made croaking sounds from the start. He started croaking a few days after i brought him home and does it every night.
Not sure if this helps at all? I moved her from a 10 gallon to a 20 gallon about 2 years ago and I also switched from pellets to live food at the same time. I use a Marineland biowheel filter and tap water. She seemed to love the new tank and new food. I tested her water with a testing strip and found it was off the charts in every category except nitrites, which was zero.
I used Prime water conditioner. That was yesterday. Also, she molted maybe twice? A completely different issue I wanted to ask about… She has had a lump on her lower left abdomen for years. She used to be on small gravel and I assumed she had eaten some but it has never gone away. Should I have a vet look at it?
She may have consumed a piece of small gravel. I have raised African Albino claw frogs for many years. My first male lived for 28 years. We are working on starting over again. Right now we have an adult female and have ordered one new female and one male. How long should we keep them isolated from our other female?
Thank you for this site I was thrilled to hear so many who are frog people too!!!! Hi, Terri! You can keep them isolated for two — four weeks. A juvenile ACF might get picked-on by an adult, for example. I have a couple questions. So my ACF was doing very well. She was very small and She was a very healthy eater would eat wax worms every 2 days or earth worms every 2 days.
Over the past month she has drastically reduced how much she eats and almost looks like she has seizure actionS every now and then. She used to come up to the side of the tank and was always right there to greet you. She just wants to hide all the time. I am wondering if she has maybe ingested rocks would this effect her? Is there a way to help get the rocks out. Besides the fact that I was misinformed greatly by the pet store what kind of frog it was and also that she was supposed to be for my son, I have grown cray attached to her and love her company.
Thank you for the time to read this. Your page has been extremely helpful. Hey there! Definitely switch to rocks that are too big for her to eat. I would encourage you to contact a local vet to see what they recommend.
Also, what is the water quality like? It was funny as my ACF used to try catch them. They are gone now just my ACF is left. For some reason after giving away the fish. This is interesting. My large, albino frog escaped the tank sometime early this morning. Surprisingly the frog was still alive, but hours later died.
I have no idea how long he was out of the water. I still have a smaller calmer green one, so I hope that one has a long life ahead of him.
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