Malaki Issue
Our female ADF has not eaten for eight days after eating a saturated Betta pellet. She otherwise appears healthy. We adopted her nearly 6 months ago and she has always been our biggest frog and our best eater. My daughter feeds her ADFs primarily frozen blood worms by hand with tweezers every evening and they eagerly wait by the glass every night for their feedings.
Environment
We have a 10 gallon freshwater tank with filter, heater, and aerator stone. We have two male and two female ADF frogs, separated now by a mesh screen to prevent mating. We also have two black Kuhli Loaches in the tank. Levels are good. We have fake plants and a couple of moss balls.
Malaki Timeline
7/19 set up tank and introduced first two frogs (Malaki and Leo) without letting tank cycle for a month. We did not know this was a mistake. The second month of set up was spent trying to control ammonia levels with 2x weekly water testings and daily water changing.
9/28 All water levels tested good and purchased API freshwater master test kit to maintain good levels. Aquarium established, no stress and all fish had been introduced.
10/12 separated fish
Discovered not all frogs were male as we had thought. Put a mesh screen divider in tank to separate two boys from two girls. Do not want mating and eggs.
12/23 blue back
Her back suddenly turned blue. There also appears to be a small hump on it now. There is one small blue structure in the tank but it doesn’t appear to be positioned where it would discolor her back. The color appears to be fading more than one week later.
12/24 saw her striking at a Kuhli pellet. She appears to be eating small bites of it (Hikari Sinking Wafers). Still ate blood worms.
12/25 Betta pellet
She ate a Betta pellet that got in the wrong tank by mistake. Shekept opening her mouth and there was an expanded pellet in her mouth that she appeared to be trying to get out (Aqueon Betta Food). She still managed to eat a bloodworm after that but was having trouble eating.
12/26 not eating
For the first three days she would not strike or eat anything and would physically turn and crawl away from the food. On day four of not eating she struck at the blood worms but did not eat one and did not strike again. On day five she struck at the blood worms and ate a very small one and then would not strike again. all days after she turns and crawls away from the food. we placed blood worms on the floor near her in case she wants to eat later but we never see her do so. We assume she must be eating something because she’s not pale and no flaking skin.
1/3 saw her floating on the top of the tank. Panicked and went to remove her but she swam down to the bottom. She did not dart but she still is appearing healthy (aside from the temporary floating and not eating) and did not want to stress her by removing her from the tank so we added a half dose of API Melafix to tank (2.5 LM). I hope this was not a mistake. To this day we have only added small infrequent doses of API Stress Coat .
is it too late to help?
Our female ADF has not eaten for eight days after eating a saturated Betta pellet. She otherwise appears healthy. We adopted her nearly 6 months ago and she has always been our biggest frog and our best eater. My daughter feeds her ADFs primarily frozen blood worms by hand with tweezers every evening and they eagerly wait by the glass every night for their feedings.
Environment
We have a 10 gallon freshwater tank with filter, heater, and aerator stone. We have two male and two female ADF frogs, separated now by a mesh screen to prevent mating. We also have two black Kuhli Loaches in the tank. Levels are good. We have fake plants and a couple of moss balls.
Malaki Timeline
7/19 set up tank and introduced first two frogs (Malaki and Leo) without letting tank cycle for a month. We did not know this was a mistake. The second month of set up was spent trying to control ammonia levels with 2x weekly water testings and daily water changing.
9/28 All water levels tested good and purchased API freshwater master test kit to maintain good levels. Aquarium established, no stress and all fish had been introduced.
10/12 separated fish
Discovered not all frogs were male as we had thought. Put a mesh screen divider in tank to separate two boys from two girls. Do not want mating and eggs.
12/23 blue back
Her back suddenly turned blue. There also appears to be a small hump on it now. There is one small blue structure in the tank but it doesn’t appear to be positioned where it would discolor her back. The color appears to be fading more than one week later.
12/24 saw her striking at a Kuhli pellet. She appears to be eating small bites of it (Hikari Sinking Wafers). Still ate blood worms.
12/25 Betta pellet
She ate a Betta pellet that got in the wrong tank by mistake. Shekept opening her mouth and there was an expanded pellet in her mouth that she appeared to be trying to get out (Aqueon Betta Food). She still managed to eat a bloodworm after that but was having trouble eating.
12/26 not eating
For the first three days she would not strike or eat anything and would physically turn and crawl away from the food. On day four of not eating she struck at the blood worms but did not eat one and did not strike again. On day five she struck at the blood worms and ate a very small one and then would not strike again. all days after she turns and crawls away from the food. we placed blood worms on the floor near her in case she wants to eat later but we never see her do so. We assume she must be eating something because she’s not pale and no flaking skin.
1/3 saw her floating on the top of the tank. Panicked and went to remove her but she swam down to the bottom. She did not dart but she still is appearing healthy (aside from the temporary floating and not eating) and did not want to stress her by removing her from the tank so we added a half dose of API Melafix to tank (2.5 LM). I hope this was not a mistake. To this day we have only added small infrequent doses of API Stress Coat .
is it too late to help?
I love dwarf frogs, good luck!
