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Would it be ok to add a tropical crab / frog to my tank ?

I find the crabs fascinating and the frogs are just like little humans. I just wanted to make sure it would be ok to add as little worried about the crab with my sucker.

Any ideas ?
 
yes but, not together.

nor can you have the crabs in with ground feeders, as the crab will happy take a chunk out of them.

the frog, yes but depends on what the frog is, an ADF your be fine anything else I would.
 
ferrikins said:
yes but, not together.

nor can you have the crabs in with ground feeders, as the crab will happy take a chunk out of them.

the frog, yes but depends on what the frog is, an ADF your be fine anything else I would.
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Ah ok !

May just go for a little crab then ?

With regards to the frog i meant one of these

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The small aquarium frog I saw in my local fish store seems to be ok to keep. But what I really like is a crap + a lobster both together in a 20 g would be funny thing to watch :).
 
Dont keep crabs with any fish, any fish that are small enough to be safe with a crab are in danger of being eaten by the crab and fish that are large enough to not be eaten will probably eat the crab. As a rule fish and crustaceans do not mix well, the only exception is some algea and filter feeding shrimps can be safely mixed with very small fish.
 
CFC is right. In my younger fish keeping days I wanted to do exactly that. Keep a crab and a frog in my community tank. Well many a disappearing fish was had and many shredded fins were had too. Really not a good idea I'm afraid :/
A crab will try and grab (if only to fail and stab) any fish that comes by.



Ps: though how you see frogs are like humans I'd love to know ;) I'm intrigued!
 
bloozoo2 said:
CFC is right. In my younger fish keeping days I wanted to do exactly that. Keep a crab and a frog in my community tank. Well many a disappearing fish was had and many shredded fins were had too. Really not a good idea I'm afraid :/
A crab will try and grab (if only to fail and stab) any fish that comes by.



Ps: though how you see frogs are like humans I'd love to know ;) I'm intrigued!
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Thanks for all your help guys,

I just think they look kinda human like !

So are you saying crabs and frogs together are a no no or overal dont get either and forget about it ?
 
Over all its best just to forget about it unless you are going to keep them in seperate tanks.
 
other way round 4 me.in my old tank my silver shark killed my crab!!!!
 
I don't know what's in your tank, but as long as it's nothing big and hungry getting an African dwarf frog or two would be ok. I've got a couple in my 10 gallon community and they're completely harmless little guys. If you get two you might get lucky and hear them sing to one-another sometimes ;)

Edit: Oh I see... the image you posted of the frog wasn't working for me, but now I see that you wanted an African clawed frog. Those suckers grow to the size of your fist and eat anything. I saw one at my LFS one time that had choked to death while trying to eat one of the smaller frogs in his tank. If your heart is set on an ACF, then I agree with CFC... just don't do it. However, you can still go for one of these little guys, but I'm afraid they don't come in albino.
 
The dwarf aquatic frogs will make tasty snacks for an adult ABF :nod:
 
i have a crab in my community tank, and she is fine, she doesn't bother the fish, and they don't bother her. she's found herself a little hole in a bit of bogwood where she stays, or shes in amongst the rocks, or on top of the powerhead. she seems perfectly happy, has laid eggs (although no male to fertilise them) and hasn't tried to escape ever.
we did keep frogs for a very short time (not with the crab though) we found that they are difficult to keep, and die really easily, and the same has occured with other ppl we know!
but they are both really cool.. and interesting to watch!
 
Synirr said:
I don't know what's in your tank, but as long as it's nothing big and hungry getting an African dwarf frog or two would be ok.  I've got a couple in my 10 gallon community and they're completely harmless little guys.  If you get two you might get lucky and hear them sing to one-another sometimes ;)

Edit: Oh I see... the image you posted of the frog wasn't working for me, but now I see that you wanted an African clawed frog.  Those suckers grow to the size of your fist and eat anything.  I saw one at my LFS one time that had choked to death while trying to eat one of the smaller frogs in his tank.  If your heart is set on an ACF, then I agree with CFC... just don't do it.  However, you can still go for one of these little guys, but I'm afraid they don't come in albino.
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I also went to a LFS and saw some of those ACF, they were huge. The person who worked there dropped some feeder fish in there, and they went crazy tring to eat them all. They looked very aggressive...

Also, Is it hard to keep African Dwarf Frogs? What do they eat?
 
Barracuda518 said:
Synirr said:
I don't know what's in your tank, but as long as it's nothing big and hungry getting an African dwarf frog or two would be ok.  I've got a couple in my 10 gallon community and they're completely harmless little guys.  If you get two you might get lucky and hear them sing to one-another sometimes ;)

Edit: Oh I see... the image you posted of the frog wasn't working for me, but now I see that you wanted an African clawed frog.  Those suckers grow to the size of your fist and eat anything.  I saw one at my LFS one time that had choked to death while trying to eat one of the smaller frogs in his tank.  If your heart is set on an ACF, then I agree with CFC... just don't do it.  However, you can still go for one of these little guys, but I'm afraid they don't come in albino.
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I also went to a LFS and saw some of those ACF, they were huge. The person who worked there dropped some feeder fish in there, and they went crazy tring to eat them all. They looked very aggressive...

Also, Is it hard to keep African Dwarf Frogs? What do they eat?
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ADF's are very easy to keep, as long as you can get them to eat, some will only take bloodworms, or tubiflexworms, and no flakes, mine will eat anything.

I must ben doing something right with them as there been singing anf mating resently.
 

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