ADF chillin behind heater

[ToWnPrEp]

One of my ADF's is just chillin behind the heater and I wanna make sure that this is ok. Here is a pic but it's a bad one that's for sure. You can barely see him but you can make him out.

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There is a black tube and its the gray lil belly that you see along it. Sorry about the bad pic =/. But is this okay? Does it mean he's cold? Or just chillin out?

 

[ToWnPrEp]

Anybody?

 

[sinistral]

From my extensive experience with ADF's consisting of having two for a week and a half, I can tell you that, based again on my extensive experience they seem to like cozy places. I have a few pieces of slate that I made some hiding places out of, but so far they seem to like squeezing underneath the bottom slate amongst the gravel. Mine will also rest underneath the heater and sometimes between the heater and the glass. Once I came home and found one apparently tangled up in the netting I had stretched over the filter intake. I thought he got sucked in accidentally, but it turned out he had discovered a peaceful spot and was just resting!

Did I say that I had extensive experience? I hope it's obvious that I'm joking! But anyways that's the behavior I've observed in my frogs

 

[ToWnPrEp]

Yeah one of mine likes to chill behind the heater right between the suction cups and the other one likes to chill behind the big rock/cave I have for them. Rarely do they go in the cave and if they do it isn't for long. They just hang out and play together every now and then. What have you been feeding them, sinistral? And how much? I've had mine since Saturday night, so 4 days and I think things are okay so far. I hope they continue to be.

 

[sinistral]

What have you been feeding them, sinistral? And how much? I've had mine since Saturday night, so 4 days and I think things are okay so far. I hope they continue to be.

Hi ToWnPrEp,

I've been feeding them what I read they like to eat (and what my LFS recommended), which is bloodworms. I got a packet of frozen cubes of the bloodworms. They recommended that I cut these cubes up into thirds and feed a third to the frogs per day (or slightly less often). Since I seem to have lost one of my initial three frogs I have been cutting the cubes into quarters.

I haven't tried feeding them flakes yet. Originally I had planned to get a betta for a companion somewhere down the line, but now I'm not so sure, as they take a while to locate the worms in the tank. We'll have to see how they get along.

When I get home I'll check and see how much one of my cubes of bloodworms consists of.

Well, we're both ADF newbies, so maybe we can struggle through ownership together online!

 

[ToWnPrEp]

Wow! I did feed them too much! Yesterday I fed them a block of brine shrimp. Today I have learned that I should of given them half that at the most. So yes, I won't be feeding them tonight for fear of overfeeding. Mine are named Hervert and Sampson and I think Hervert is female. So maybe a new name is called for. I'm massively paranoid about killing them and I check the tank at least like every 20 mins to make sure they are alive and kicking. The night that I got them (Saturday) my heater was being very unstable and I was having massive temperature changes but they seem to be doing ok. I got up every hour on the hour that first night to make sure the temperature was ok. So essentially, I was up all night long with them the 1st night.

 

[sinistral]

I did see that other post and the advice you got from nutmeg, I believe.

I've had fish since December, but I was so anxious about killing all the frogs I got that I put off getting them (despite having a decorated, planted, and cycled tank) for about a month. Of course the first thing that happened was one disappeared. I feel badly about that, but it's still a mystery. My hope is he's hiding somewhere in the tank; I looked all around the floor, in the filter but couldn't find him anywhere.

My tank tends to run between 80 and 85F in the daytime (I've got a 40w lamp on for the plants) and so far the frogs have been good (except for the missing one *sad*). I don't think he's missing because of the temp though. I figure with the word "African" in their name they could stand temps that are on the warm side

I may get another frog this weekend

 

[ToWnPrEp]

My temperature tends to sit at 78-80. They seem to be okay with that. Hmm disappearing frogs...do you have anything that would have ate it? Did you name yours? If so tell me tell me!!!

 

[sinistral]

I had a thought that perhaps the two remaining frogs ganged up and ate the missing one, but that seems relatively unlikely. I suspect he probably squeezed out in one of the minuscule open spaces in the tank which I can't do anything about, and then leapt a prodigious distance to his death. There's nothing else alive in the tank except for a billion common snails, some algae and the plants.

I haven't named the frogs I don't tend to name my aquatic pets. They are awfully cute though, and I'm quite attached to them already Sometimes, when I come home, I say "Hey guys!" or "Hi dude!", or "Hey frogs!". That makes me sound like a simpleton though.

 

[ToWnPrEp]

Yeah I doubt that the other frogs ate it. Maybe it's stillin the tank somewhere? How long has it been missing?

 

[sinistral]

Yeah I doubt that the other frogs ate it. Maybe it's stillin the tank somewhere? How long has it been missing?

This is kind of embarrassing, but I've had the frogs since a week ago Saturday. They tend to hide a lot, but since I put them into the tank initially I remember two were hiding under the slate and one was hiding in the plants. After that, I've only ever seen one or two at a time, so it was hard to tell how many frogs I had. So I'm not altogether certain how long he's been missing-- in between yesterday when I did a thorough tank inspection and a week and a half ago when I first put him in the tank

Where did you get the names for your frogs? I like them!

 

[ToWnPrEp]

Well I got the name Sampson because I wrote a children's story for my Advanced Composition class and it was a pet frog named Sampson. Then Hervert came from a misunderstanding. My boyfriend said "call him Herbert" and I asked "call him Pervert!!!?!?" He was like "nooooo Herbert!" It's kinda stupid but I just took a the combination of the names and got Hervert or Perbert and Hervert sounds better.

 

[Pugwinkle]

It's fine if your ADF likes to sit behind the heater. Mine do that lots of times too.

 

[sinistral]

Then Hervert came from a misunderstanding. My boyfriend said "call him Herbert" and I asked "call him Pervert!!!?!?" He was like "nooooo Herbert!" It's kinda stupid but I just took a the combination of the names and got Hervert or Perbert and Hervert sounds better.

That's a cute story! Hope they're continuing to do well.

 

[Mustang5L5]

I've had my three for a week now, so i'll chime in with what i have learned.

I keep my three in a heavily planted 38Gal tall (24") with a lot of other fish. If you guys think find yours is tough, you should try it in a tank with so many plants you can't even see all your fish at once anymore.

Anyway, none of the fish bother them at all. They don't even pay attention. I even have a female betta in the tank and she doesn't bother the frogs.

They are VERY good at finding food. Sure they can't see well, but they can SMELL well. I've already seen them eating flakes, frozen bloodworms and algea wafers that i put in for the ottos and snails. I even see them eating dead plant leaves before i can take them out. Not sure if that's part of their diet, but they have ingested plant matter.

Like i said before, they are VERY good at hiding. The only time i saw all three at the same time was when i first put them in the tank. Usually i can find 1 after 5 mins of looking. They all have different spot patterns and sizes so i can tell which is which that way i'm sure all three are still ok. Other that that, i really only see 1 at a time, maybe two if i get lucky.

When i feed the fish, i usually sink some food down for the frogs and the betta (she likes to slink along the bottom through the plants trying to eat the convict fry). WHenever a frog is in sight, they always perk up when food is in the tank. If a flake or bloodworm lands within 8" of them they hunt it down like a dog. They are always picking up flakes and stuff in the gravel during the day between meals. I'm not worried about them finding food at all as long as i make sure some hits the gravel.

I have a good cleanup crew. Any food that's on the gravel when lights go out is gone by morning. All my snails keep the tank spotless! Funny thing though, today my large 3" Mystery snail was eating a large flake when one frog came skipping over and stole it from it! I got a kick out of that.