African Clawed frogs

Jim and Jennifer Teddy

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Jan 20, 2002, 12:20:06 AM1/20/02

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I would like to hear from anyone out there who have African clawed frogs. I
have 4 of them in my 100 gallon tank and I just love them to pieces. Three
of them are albino and the other one is green and black. I would like to
learn more about them from other people in the group
Thanks a lot,
Jennifer

Pooka

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Jan 19, 2002, 10:26:26 PM1/19/02

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Does that variety pose a threat to other fish ? I thought that the African
Clawed Frogs were predators and sometimes mistakenly sold as African
Dwarf Frogs. From my websearch I see that they are very similar looking.

Whichever they are though, my small frog is probably my best and most
interesting aquarium resident yet. Before I learned how to feed him, I did
see him eating a neon carcass. I do not know if he killed it though, might've
been scavenging. He seems docile and ignores the other tankmates. He is
the only swimming reptile I have ever been able to feed by hand :-)

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Pooka

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Jan 19, 2002, 10:46:23 PM1/19/02

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Here are some links I found about aquatic frogs.

Enthusiats' view:
http://pages.prodigy.net/boxergirl/frogs.htm

Differences between dwarf and clawed frogs:
http://pages.prodigy.net/boxergirl/frogs.htm

- Pooka

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Jan 19, 2002, 10:59:02 PM1/19/02

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The March 2002 Aquarium Fish Magaziene has an article on frogs.
African Clawed Frogs are described as "voracious predators" not once
but twice.
Wayne

Sam

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Jan 19, 2002, 11:58:14 PM1/19/02

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They ARE predators, but most fish are big enough to not be food.
Be sure not to keep them with fish like Discus, as the temperature
should not exceed 80 degrees. Also all amphibians are hard on plants.

I have a small multi-species aqua-terrarium tank I have been
successful experimenting with. It has a total of about 5 gallons for
the water part.
I am keeping 5 Dwarf frogs, 3 chinese newts, 6 neons, and 6 ghost
shrimp. (yes I do weekly water changes, even with a canister and
bio-filter).
I am using the ghost shrimp fry as a food supplement for them and the
fish (and they are fun to watch as well).
I feed a cube of blood worms 3 times a week and a cube of tubifex
worms twice a week.

They are wonderful to watch. I was initially worried over the fights
over the food, but they always work it out.

Sam

Jim and Jennifer Teddy

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Jan 20, 2002, 10:29:45 AM1/20/02

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Thank You for all of your posts. I just adore our frogs. I have two koi,
one 8 inch goldfish, one 4 inch goldfish, a tiger barb, 2 sharks, 1 skeleton
fish, 1 black molly, and several small regular goldfish, 1 giant apple
snail, and 4 African clawed frogs all living in my 100 gallon tank. My
frogs are large and they have NEVER picked on my fish, so I'm not too sure
that I agree with the statement that they will be a danger to my fish. They
have never even picked on the snail
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Jan 21, 2002, 1:53:18 PM1/21/02

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I have 2 Albino African Clawed frogs that I have had for over a year now in
my community tank with several small fish, they have never touched them.
there are also several live plants in this tank and they don't affect the
plants either, other than the odd uprooting. They aer great to watch and
see the strange positions that they sit in and stuff. I feed mine a
combination of 2 kinds sinking pellets, they are fed everyother day just
after lights out, (to avoid the fish eating all their food.

Foes

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