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[ciaran]

hi, i bought a frog for my tank but didnt think about feeding and would like to know what they eat if any one can suggest any diets for him. he would really appreciate it i think hes starving and all the fish eat the food before him.

 

[moray]

hi, i bought a frog for my tank but didnt think about feeding and would like to know what they eat if any one can suggest any diets for him. he would really appreciate it i think hes starving and all the fish eat the food before him.

what sort of frog have you got?

 

[FroggFrogg]

Ok well Dwarf or Clawed frogs will both eat bloodworm. Dwarf frogs are often smaller, virtually blind and usually green.
Clawed frogs are also virtually blind with webbed feet and are generally seen in the albino form.
The best way to tell them apart is by the feet:
webbed=clawed
unwebbed=dwarf.
I have kept both and found that the dwarf need to be target feed, by this i mean put the blood worm right in front of their faces! My clawed frog smells the food and comes up to the top where i hand feed him. If i weren't to hand feed him he would grope around till he found food.
I feed my clawed frog a variety of bloodworm, lance fish, cockle/mussle and fish meat.
Live bloodworm or frozen is best as the freeze dried stuff tends to float, either use a pippette or tweezers to feed...

 

[BiffMalawi]

I am sorry but I think I disagree. Dwarf africans have webbed front feet and clawed don't. My dwarfs are brown and almost grey.

My dwarf african find thawed frozen blood worms very easily. I just thaw in tank water and pour them in. The frogs go crazy and swim all over eating.

 

[Tsi_User]

Ok well Dwarf or Clawed frogs will both eat bloodworm. Dwarf frogs are often smaller, virtually blind and usually green.
Clawed frogs are also virtually blind with webbed feet and are generally seen in the albino form.
The best way to tell them apart is by the feet:
webbed=clawed
unwebbed=dwarf.
I have kept both and found that the dwarf need to be target feed, by this i mean put the blood worm right in front of their faces! My clawed frog smells the food and comes up to the top where i hand feed him. If i weren't to hand feed him he would grope around till he found food.
I feed my clawed frog a variety of bloodworm, lance fish, cockle/mussle and fish meat.
Live bloodworm or frozen is best as the freeze dried stuff tends to float, either use a pippette or tweezers to feed...

Not quite true, African Dwarf frogs are smaller but they do have webbed feet. Mine is also a grey and brown color, I have never seen a green one.

African clawed frogs have webbed back feet and unwebbed front feet.

There is already a pinned topic at the top of this section about the differences, I suggest that you read it if you want more info

 

[FroggFrogg]

Sorry i did not specify which feet were webbed or unwebbed. And i have seen a lot of green dwarf frogs and the ones i have kept are more green than grey... Oh and by the way just throwing in the food would be a problem in this scenario as ciaran states that the fish are eating all the food. Glad we cleared that up.