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DrConnie

DrConnie

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Ok so we just got 3 little ADF's and want to know if there are any little secrets I should know about them...
 
I was given a jar of whole krill by Zoo Med- they are intended for turtles, but will frogs eat them? I was noticing a lot of foods on the market are labeled for turtles and frogs, but this one just says turtles.
Who knows?
 
i have had the same dwarf frogs for 3 1/2 years. i only feed them live black worms.i don't know if this is correct or not but they are doing just fine and they love the worms and eat until their belly's are full. i feed 1 sometimes 2 times per day. i bought a very small clay drip dish that you can buy at a craft store and put this on the bottom of the tank. i use a turkey baster to suck up the black worms and i deposit them into the dish. it took the frogs a bit of time to understand the process but now they go right to the dish climb in and eat. the black worms (not to be confused with blood worms) are alive and need to be kept in a closed container in the refrigerator. you also have to rinse them about everyday to keep them alive and fit to feed to your frogs. i tried to feed the hard commercially prepared food but they refused it and i was worried they were going to die so i went to the lfs and they said to try the worms and they haven't stopped eating since. if your's will eat the prepared food i guess that would be easier but i think the worms are what has kept mine healthy over the past 3+ years. good luck. they are very cute and entertaining!
 
jpchin said:
i have had the same dwarf frogs for 3 1/2 years. i only feed them live black worms.i don't know if this is correct or not but they are doing just fine and they love the worms and eat until their belly's are full. i feed 1 sometimes 2 times per day. i bought a very small clay drip dish that you can buy at a craft store and put this on the bottom of the tank. i use a turkey baster to suck up the black worms and i deposit them into the dish. it took the frogs a bit of time to understand the process but now they go right to the dish climb in and eat. the black worms (not to be confused with blood worms) are alive and need to be kept in a closed container in the refrigerator. you also have to rinse them about everyday to keep them alive and fit to feed to your frogs. i tried to feed the hard commercially prepared food but they refused it and i was worried they were going to die so i went to the lfs and they said to try the worms and they haven't stopped eating since. if your's will eat the prepared food i guess that would be easier but i think the worms are what has kept mine healthy over the past 3+ years. good luck. they are very cute and entertaining!
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Wow, thank you- I hadn't read anything about black worms. I will definitely check those out. Are they expensive? Also, do you have other animals in the frog tank? Just wondering if anyone else is trying to eat their food. Mine are in a 20 gallon tank with some guppies...so far no food competition, but I've had the frogs less than 24 hours at this point.
I'm LOVING just sitting here & watching the frogs swim- SO cute!!
 
my frogs are in a small aquarium by themselves so there isn't any competition for food. they sometimes climb into the dish together but they share the worms. the worms are sold in portions (in a small container) that the fish store employee makes up. they are actually housed at the store in a large tupperware type thing. if you get them you have to buy a special net to use when you rinse them. it's a very fine gauge net so the worms won't wash down the drain. also use water conditioner in the rinse water. if you see any white worms dig them out with a tweezers because they are dead and you don't want to feed those to your frogs. the single portion costs about $5.00 if you take the time to wash the worms that portion should last about 3-4 weeks. i live close to "that fish place that pet place in lancaster pa. they also have a web site or google the name and you'll get the web site. they have produts on the site and they might sell the worms if you can't find them at a fish store near you. the adf's are great fun to watch. and soon they'll start doing the posing and the zen moves. best of luck and if you have any other questions i can help you with it would be my pleasure.
 
jpchin said:
my frogs are in a small aquarium by themselves so there isn't any competition for food. they sometimes climb into the dish together but they share the worms. the worms are sold in portions (in a small container) that the fish store employee makes up. they are actually housed at the store in a large tupperware type thing. if you get them you have to buy a special net to use when you rinse them. it's a very fine gauge net so the worms won't wash down the drain. also use water conditioner in the rinse water. if you see any white worms dig them out with a tweezers because they are dead and you don't want to feed those to your frogs. the single portion costs about $5.00 if you take the time to wash the worms that portion should last about 3-4 weeks. i live close to "that fish place that pet place in lancaster pa. they also have a web site or google the name and you'll get the web site. they have produts on the site and they might sell the worms if you can't find them at a fish store near you. the adf's are great fun to watch. and soon they'll start doing the posing and the zen moves. best of luck and if you have any other questions i can help you with it would be my pleasure.
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Awesome! Great info :) If you don't mind, I'd like to add you to my friends list & pick your brain when the need arises. :thanks:
 
So here's an update...after some more research, some fantastic advice from several knowledgeable people and using my smarticles, I have figured out a possible solution for feeding my ADFs without worrying that the guppies will eat all their food!
I took a food service deep dish and filled it 1/2 full of aquarium water & floated it in the tank, caught the ADFs with a net and fed them in there. They ate till their bellies were full and remained active and didn't appear to be too stressed by the process. When I released them back into the tank, the leftover bloodworms were scooped up by the guppies.
Does anyone see any problems with this method?
 
Ha, that's great! I'm not sure if they would be stressed from that or not. Maybe someone with ADFs can answer (I'm planning on getting some eventually as well). I know you can use a turkey baster to squirt the food at them or use long tongs to hold the food in front of them while they eat it. If you knock on the glass before you feed them they'll learn to associate the sound and will start looking for the baster or tongs or whatever. But if your method works then go for it (unless someone with ADFs says not to lol).
 
librarygirl said:
Ha, that's great! I'm not sure if they would be stressed from that or not. Maybe someone with ADFs can answer (I'm planning on getting some eventually as well). I know you can use a turkey baster to squirt the food at them or use long tongs to hold the food in front of them while they eat it. If you knock on the glass before you feed them they'll learn to associate the sound and will start looking for the baster or tongs or whatever. But if your method works then go for it (unless someone with ADFs says not to lol).
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I tried the turkey baster & a set of chopsticks, but the guppies attacked the bloodworms every time before the frogs could get to them! I found out pretty quickly that they needed a private cafeteria or it wasn't going to work.
These little frogs are the cutest little things I have ever seen! So glad I got them :)
 
Man! I just got my first ADF's today after doing a TON of research and nothing has been as informative as this forum! I am also having trouble feeding them. I'm a little nervous about trying to plate thing lol. I have other fish and dont want to spook them.
 
Jnthn932 said:
Man! I just got my first ADF's today after doing a TON of research and nothing has been as informative as this forum! I am also having trouble feeding them. I'm a little nervous about trying to plate thing lol. I have other fish and dont want to spook them.
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Actually my guppies didn't hardly notice anything was going on. (other than high fiving each other every time I brought the net up with a frog & not one of them!) It's definitely some work, but my ADFs are just so tiny, they are too small for the pellets. If this was going to be anything but temporary I might not be doing it! Super effective though :)
Good luck with your frogs!
 
i have two adfs and i feed them freeze dried bloodworms using tongs. they will also eat freeze dried shrimp. they are partially blind so beware of that. you should also have two or more. my adfs share their tanks with a guppy, molly, platys, and mystery snails.
 
I don't want to give any sort of false information, but I had two ADF's in with a betta. They would eat anything that the betta didn't, the pellets would break up and i'd see them eating betta pellets. My LFS told me that it was fine, and they were little scavengers that didn't require much food to begin with. Also the betta never messed with them, he actually killed two ghost shrimp but always just leaves the frogs be.
 
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