Feedin Dwarf Frogs

[backley420]

i can't feed my frog. I have frog pellets but the fish eat them and he just lays there and chills with the snails. What does he eat??? when does eat.. Who do i feed him?

 

[Puffdaddy]

Who do i feed him?

George Bush 8)

Seriously now, try feeding it some frozen bloodworms. How long have you had the frog? It may just need time to adjust to the new environment and work up an appetite.

 

[-germ-]

George Bush

Good idea PD although i think the nutritional content would be full of --censored--

 

[backley420]

had the fish about a mounth. Just been feeding fish flakes to my 30 gal tank and the frog is still k8icking. so does he just eat scrapes or something??

 

[Meds081603]

I have seen one of our two dwarf frogs eat once. I wish I could think of a way to be sure they are eating but we've had them several months now and they seem healthy so I don't know. The tank that has our dwarf frogs is mostly and invert/oddball tank and we tend to overfeed the fish in that tank. There are plenty of shrimp, snails, and clams to happily devour EVERYTHING on the bottom of the tank. We just assume the frog takes his share.

 

[lotsoffishies]

The best thing to do is to go back to the pet shop where you bought them and ask what they are used to being fed with. What they will eat depends on what they are used to eating.

Also are they really small? If they are you might have a problem feeding them, I bought a couple a while back that were really small, and they would only eat things that moved, they would sit and wait for it to wriggle, which meant that they would eat nothing but live food. Well in the end they died because the fish liked live blood worms too. After moving house I went to my LFS and saw his frogs eating just the fish food so Iasked him why mine never did as well and he told me that because they had been reared on live food they wouldn't eat anything else, and that often very small frogs do not survive. So asking the pet shop is the best thing to do.

Ideally they should be fed frozen bloodworms.

 

[backley420]

thanks doggggggg

 

[sinistral]

African Dwarf Frogs have poor eyesight. Often they won't find food, unless it is offered directly to them.

An effective but labor intensive way of feeding them is to defrost some bloodworms and put them in the end of a turkey baster. Then, lower the worms in front of the frogs, moving them slightly to attract the frogs' attention.

This ensures that the frogs will eat the worms, and not the fish. After a while the frogs will begin to get the idea that the worms are for them.

Good luck.

 

[backley420]

wont that scare the frog? everytime i get close to the glass the frog runs-swims away

 

[Stroker]

wont that scare the frog? everytime i get close to the glass the frog runs-swims away

My frog was the same way till I put her in my 5 gallon. The 5 gallon is also in my office and the old tank is at home in the living room. Before any time you got close to the tank the frog would just run and hide, now when I get to the office I kinda tap the tank to say high and sit at my desk and the next thing I know is I'm being watched.