African Dwarf Frog

[K.J.]

So, I have two tanks suitable for an ADF. Contestant number one is a mildly planted 10-gallon, with lots of hiding places, but a somewhat agressive female betta. Number two is a two gallon tank, but it's only home to two tinnyyy snails. Like, about the size of... this ( ) or so. The thing is, it has a rock covered with algae in it, so I'm not sure if it's good for the ADF, the water isn't green but I'm sure it's somewhat dirty. Also, do ADF's eat snails? It'd be really helpful if you could tell me which tank would be better for one.

 

[Tsi_User]

Out of the two i would pick the 10 gallon with plenty of hiding places. Our ADF is in with a male betta who can be quite aggressive but the frog stands his ground pretty well

 

[Slyspy]

Generally speaking frogs ignore everything which isn't another frog, so the only question is whether you can feed them properly. A top feeder like a betta shouldn't compete for their food, so they should be ok. Unless the betta is so agressive that it attacks anything, even if they look nothing like another betta.

That said when my frogs shared a tank with a betta they did get rather alarmed when he went into one of his fighting fits, but he never attacked them and they just hid. Now they live with shrimp and snails and are much more active and seem happier, chirpping away through the night.

 

[K.J.]

Generally speaking frogs ignore everything which isn't another frog, so the only question is whether you can feed them properly. A top feeder like a betta shouldn't compete for their food, so they should be ok. Unless the betta is so agressive that it attacks anything, even if they look nothing like another betta.

That said when my frogs shared a tank with a betta they did get rather alarmed when he went into one of his fighting fits, but he never attacked them and they just hid. Now they live with shrimp and snails and are much more active and seem happier, chirpping away through the night.

A couple of days ago I bought two (although the pet shop owner told me they were clawed, after some research I found they weren't) and switched some bettas. One, which was previously in a two and a half gallon, got switched to the ten gallon, as with the female. It's because the male is much less agressive. So the frogs are doing fine, they stayed in the corner of the tank for the first few days, but now one's sitting in the middle... they eat betta pellets and frozen bloodworms, if I get some mosquito larvae I'll get them some (it just snowed, so they'll all dead). They were chirping last night and today.

 

[eschaton]

On occasion my ADF's snap at snails. Only during feeding time though. They have notoriously poor eyesight and when they get near food they'll try to eat just about anything. They can't break snail shells however, and they invariably spit out the tiny baby snails.

 

[Iron Man]

I had two or more (can't remember exactly how many) in my 55 gallon with goldfish and mystery snails and they did fine. As said before they are almost blind and can only see what is directly in front of them. If they get the notion they WILL snap at it but they are harmless, even to the snails....which was the only thing slow enough my frogs could snap at. The snail would just be startled and retract a little....and move on.

I can't answer your question about the smaller snails but I think that was just answered anyway.