African Frogs

[Fighterfish]

Hi,
Does anyone know if you can keep dwarf african frogs with hese fish:
Neon tetras
Indian Striped gouramis
Platies
Guppies
Kribensis'
Thanks

 

[Luke_e]

I'd say it would be fine.
Make sure you hand feed them bloodworms though as the above fish will get all the bloodworm before the frogs. They should have around 3 - 4 worms every day/every other day.

 

[brewyn]

I would say NO, the african frogs use there front feet as spaded when eating, they would try to shovel the fish into there mouths causing the fish a great deal of stress.

 

[Luke_e]

What the...
Have you seen the size of an ADF? They are tiny, they wouldnt be able to harm a fish never mind eat it, or 'try and shove the fish into their mouths' as you say. The ADF have no interest in fish.
Unless you mean the ACF (clawed frog), but SiameseFighter mentioned in his post the dwarf frog.

 

[brewyn]

luke, the clawed frogs and axolotles i used to keep would devour a fish in seconds, if theres another type of frog, then I am not aware of it, our lfs is not so up to date. what the....?

 

[emma12321]

Hi,

He's talking about these http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=133204 only a threat to fish 2cms and under.

Emma

 

[Luke_e]

Read his and my post. He said an African Dwarf Frog. You're talking about an African Clawed Frog. I think you're a little confused here.
EDIT: And 'What the...' is because i was shocked at what you said, as you are talking about a totally different animal.

 

[brewyn]

oh well. we know a bit about both of them now! African clawed toad was what i kept and there big, and ugly.

how did you get that photo on your post? i tried and it turned out like the frog, huge.

 

[brewyn]

see, just been reading some other posts and they can as babies ,be mistaken for something else. that means my info wasn't wrong, just wrong frog.

 

[utahfish]

i have 6 frogs in my community tank. they were in a tank by themselves and i was worried when i moved them but they seem to be doing fine. my biggest worry was that they wouldnt get fed with the other fish but they seem to be getting fed enough. i give them sinking froggie pellets and the fish seem to ignore them. i have glo lites black neons , neons and red eye tetras. the tetras are all mellow and the frogs are out amongst the fish all day and sleep in theyre cave with the corydoras.

as long as theyre not with big aggresive or fast moving fish they'll be okay. also they are scavengers. i usually feed mine at night after the lights go off that way it limits the fish from getting at it as well. i also feed them dried blood worms that flaot on the top and all the fish i have are mid feeders and dont go to the top to eat the dried worms. if your going to feed them frozen blood worms either do it by hand or try your luck at night. the pellets seem to work best for me though as they are loaded with froggy vitamins and easily digestible and the fish leave them alone.