HOW TO MAKE AN AFRICAN DWARF FROG TANK + care
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- Опубліковано 24 бер 2017
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Plants used: blyxa Japonica
Brazilian pennywort
Frogbit
Water lettuce
Slavinia minima
Duckweed
Anacharis
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"they are not suicidal.. they will eat"
im gonna share this quote with my psychology teacher lol
shut up
Great video but i would highly suggest a lid on your tank. ADF have been known to jump out of the tank while swimming to the surface to breathe.
Coldblooded Zach thanks! No jumpers so far in 2 years as I grow floating plants like a lid lol however this is generally great advice
Very true I lost one like that
What kind of gravel is that you use? It looks natural and beautiful, but is it painted black ?
mohtabon zandkarimi substrate
Mr Penguin that’s absolutely false.
My frogs climb up into the palm of my hand and eat there :)
U have a lid?
Instead of using a baster just use tongs. They’re normally used for reptiles but they work perfect for feeding time. Simply easy and quick.
Yeah that's a good idea
depends on what you’re feeding. u use a baster for baby brine shrimp
thats what i do too
I've always fed my frogs aquatic frog and tadpole pellets. Cuz my mom didn't want blood worms in the freezer. My coworker at Petco gave me her frog and the color is so different cuz she had been feeding blood worms I fell so bad! He's so much healthier. I finally convince my mom to let me in this video was very helpful !
I used to feed mine live blood worms, which completely grossed me out!!!! 🤮 No one ever told me you could buy them FROZEN!!! LOL!!!
Same with me... petco.. Jan 2024. 🐸
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I like your aquascaping, very good job!
I'm so glad I found your chanel 🥰
I'm staring my water plant journey and I want to have frogs eventually
Your tutorial has helped me out wit so much needed beggiener infor
Thank you🥰
More videos please!!! :) You explain things so well & I love your tanks in the background!
162 subs only?? we need to see more females in the aquarium hobby on youtube. Video quality is good. Upload more often and more people will be on this channel. :) thanks for the video
Wadud Khan thank you
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I like your aquascaping. Its especially fun to aquascape extra high tanks, 20 extra high and 30 extra high are great sizes. I am getting into aquasca;ping reef tanks now. thanks
I had one of these frogs in my community tank as a kid. Back then fishkeeping was a massive failure, including my frog starving to death. I was told feed him freeze dried blood worms. Now I have a betta, which has been very successful thank goodness.
Very nice planted tank!
Beautiful tank setups
I don't know if this is because of their time at the pet store, but all of my African Dwarf Frogs over the years have eaten veggie wafers or shrimp pellets. Or they swim up the top of the tank and steal the freeze dried blood worms and pellets I throw in for the Betta or other fish. They all kind of do different things over time. Highly trainable animals.
i would suggest a lid, i lost a frog cus he jumped out and dried up :(
Question: how far in advance do I set up the tank before introducing the frogs?
Love this set up!
Watch my video on the nitrogen cycle
My frogs love to stalk the floating bloodworms pouncing while floating just below the water line. The tank I have is 5.4 gallon panoramic glass cube with overwater filter that trickles so as to provide movement with just a weak current. They also hunt down frog pellets on the bottom. They seem to smell food and then hunt it down. It keeps them in good shape. I have java ferns in shallow gravel and they are sending out new baby ferns that will form some floating habitat for them. They seem very hungry so I’m gonna try to feed live blood or black worms. I understand they can live in the gravel providing a convenient smorgasbord all night when they are very busy swimming singing and mating. 🐸
What kind of worms do you put in there for the frogs that move about your substrate
Sinking pellets works, too. They see the sinking pellet, and they come for it. Shrimp pellets, especially, fall and bounce along the bottom. Back when I started keeping the them in the 80s, there weren't a lot of options. Shrimp pellets became my goto, and I still keep them around.
Cool tank!
very informative. i subscribe. hope to see more videos.
Wallytukan thank you
Excellent!
Thank you so much for your help!!
Great video!
Does anyone have an opinion on housing dwarf frogs and apple snails? I’m getting so much mixed info. The snails in my 5 gallon with my betta at the moment but the tank is a 5 gallon and I’m reluctant to have multiple snails adding to nitrates in her tank so I’d like to move them to my ten gallon with my frogs. This was the original plan but multiple people at the pet store turned me off to this, but I’m used to the mixed opinions when it comes to fishkeeping.
Where did you get that heating lamp that sticks onto the side of the aquarium like that
THANK YOU for this video.
Like to add a couple of suggestions if I may.
First off, I LOVE THE TANK DESIGN. Love the top water plants and the ground cover.
However, you'd find great advantages in not completely filling the tank. ADFs do best when water is far shallower. You got a couple of misconceptions about their vision. While they are practically blind they do see well for what they can see, it's just that vision isn't their primary sense. What they can see is shades of light & dark, of movement, and with a visual acuity of a couple of inches above & beyond their noses. This means with shallower depths the frogs are good ambush predators of things floating on the water surface as they stand on the bottom with their noses only a couple of inches below the surface. From there, what they see is silhouetted against the sky above. You'll find that by feeding them floating food they'll strike it like a bass against a floating Junebug.
My next suggestion is to totally get away from chemical treatment dechlorinators by NEVER USING TAPWATER. Regardless of dechlorination treatments, chlorine is still present, it winds up accumulating in the tank gravel. Chlorine kills your plants, kills your pets & specifically kills the microbes that is the backbone of your tanks filter system. You can't "train" plants or animals to live in tap water. That's impossible. The best solution is to ALWAYS use COMMERCIALLY BOTTLED SPRING WATER since it's never chlorinated.(Bottled DRINKING Water OTH is just filtered tap water) Heck, you can have your own designer label spring water made up to sell to your clients. Do that & the success rate for your tanks will go way up.
A real bad idea for a ADF tank... using chemical declorinators & "Prime" is also introducing chemicals that "induce" production of a slime coat. Something good for fish perhaps, TERRIBLE for ADF's. ADF's naturally have no skin oil, they have no slime coat, it's the ONLY reason they live in water is because of this. Without skin oil or a slime coat, ADF's would dry out if out of water. But because of this they SHED THEIR OUTER SKIN from time to time. Thats why slime coat conditioners are terrible. With their need to shed, the skin needs to be brittle. But with an artificial slime coat, the skin is too difficult to shed. ADF'S CAN DROWN if they can't shed. The dead skin can constrain their movement, they can't swim to the surface & drown. Worse, dead skin can constrict blood flow to their limbs, they can lose a leg, foot or arm because the dead skin shuts off blood flow. INW, don't use chemicals.
One other point. ADF's are primarily nocturnal. In nature there's safety in the darkness & they are far more active than most expect. A brightly lit tank in a brightly lit setting tends to lead to ADFs who spend all the day hiding. Use less lighting and put the tank in a less lit, & quiet location, the ADF's will respond by being more active.
One last thing, don't use fresh bloodworm, if you want bloodworm, use frozen. There's a bacterium present in the skin of bloodworm that's a leading suspect in causing bloat. Freezing the bloodworm kills the bacterium. Ultimately, the best solution is to offer floating food pellets. The pellets have bloodworm, but also fish meal protein, & calcium, and phosphorous, and magnesium, & more vitamins & minerals. Its a far more healthy & balanced diet. The processed pellets are designed to float, then sink, satisfying both feeding behaviors of ambush feeding and ground foraging. Feeding only one or two single food types exclusively is not nutritious at all. How long would you stay healthy is you only ate hotdogs & nothing else?
Hey thanks for this! I’ll be using some of this information for my African clawed frogs. I know they’re two different types of frogs, but I’m assuming most of this information is true for AFCs too
Would a pare of long tweezers work for feeding them?
This helps so much!
Much thanks for this video I have a male and female coming now I know what to get much love and thanks I also added a subscribe see you soon
My uncle took my frog 5 years ago and he just feeds flakes and his frog is doing great. Now I just started back. I use a dish amd pellets and they know when its feeding time lol
Your frog has been alive for 5 years??
What heater should I get for an aquarium of similar size?
Question my frog hides under a castle also do they not move much??
AWESOME
Could you please list out the floating plants you have in there? Thank you :)
Good video tanks
Great video just wondering where to get seiryu stone like in the tank that was next to the frog tank??
Frogs constantly bump their head's. I suggest rubber and soft aquarium landscaping. I also use live plants in my tank. They need one side of the tank to swim and play, the others is filled with plants to hide and sleep.
Well you can put the food in the bowl and they can learn the bowl=food right?
I use a food dish to feed my ADF. Never have any problems; and she took to it right away.
We have had no issue with feeding pellets and do frozen blood worms with no issues. We put them in a small dish in the tank
Yep I have a dish I just put their food in.
My frogs eat the food from my hand ✋
@@Brockandrews22 that’s great!! I’m a new owner and I’m scared of getting them sick. Do you wash your hands before and after? Will it stress them out or put them at risk with my hand in the tank?
What is the capacity after decorations?
So cool.
What wattage is the heater in your tank? I am guessing 50w or less?
do you remember the name of the substrate by any chance? i'm struggling deciding on what to use, because of the constant back and forth debates on sand or gravel (not small enough for them to ingest) but i also want it to be visually appealing. i'll be having real plants in this tank as well.
kaitlyn fluval stratum but haven't had any problems with sand or other substrates including eco complete red
Filters need to be external bcs frogs are adversely affected by vibrations of more conventional filter setups
I have a 90 gal tank with 6 African dwarf frogs and around 10 corydoras catfish, I feed them frozen blood worms which works just fine. I thaw them out and pour them over the front of the tank, I'v got the frogs tap trained so they know foods coming, the corydoras stir up the worms which attracts the frogs to eat. I use to baste the worms directly in front of the frogs, but I don't have to anymore and they all eat just fine. So ADFs aren't these super finicky eaters that places claim they are.
Do you use any special light bulbs?
My frog is very skinny he was alone in a 10 gallon his buddies haven't come in yet. He had to pre-order... but i placed him in my 30 gallon with 3 panda corys, two snails and 2 black moor fancy gold fish (some say dont do this) but there is hiding places and long plants and he seems to be a lot happier. Hope this works i will keep an eye on them.
If the tank is full of water, are they still can go outside of the tank??
Do Dwarf Frogs need a cover on top of the aquarium? Or is open ok?
How much would this tank cost set up like this? Woww
how many litres/gallons do african dwarf frogs need? i have a betta by himself (with a few small catfish) in a 10 gallon/48 litre, i have had him for a while now by himself and i saw a video on african dwarf frogs and they were soo cute! so i was wondering if i could add one? or do they need more space? if so i have a 300l/65 gallon tank with a sorority and neons with a few catfish would that be better ?
I think this tank is way too small for African Dwarf Frogs, or pretty much anything for that matter. I'm very tired of people using these tiny tanks. I wouldn't put any animal (besides maybe shrimp or snails) in anything smaller than 10 gallons. Surviving does not mean thriving.
Large fish do scare frogs, so I would say it depends on the size of the cat fish (since they share the bottom space). Make sure they have plenty of hiding spaces. You also have to make sure it's not too deep for the frogs to come up for air easily.
I have trained my frogs to come up to the surface for feeding. I read in an article you can train them and I do I tap the tank and call them and they come up.
My 2 live on fish flakes and catfish pellets there daft on them! Never fed them live food yet there in a pretty big tank happy n getting quite big lol added a bottom feeder couple month ago he loves it too! Grew at just having them 3 in the tank not sure about adding a beta now they 3 have got on so well not really wanting to add another territorial fish to the tank now they just had there weekly treat before there water change nice wee bit of chicken this wee sausage last they get a wee treat at weekend like that I seem to have a male a female I think anyway the female has a tiny tiny wee tail kinda thing n she's bigger n the boss haha! Had them awhile now there eye sight is really good from what some people say they find everything them two lol! Love them brilliant wee things was a drunken accident that led to the purchase haha ended up with 2 frogs so pal gave me a nice big tank on a stand for them so plenty room they love being able to be kinda free to a point mine's come rite to top off tank and can be hand fed too but they like to swim around the top while eating the catfish crushed pellets n I'll leave some whole so sink to bottom for them they like to dig n hunt in the gravel later at night gonna add some live plants soon got soft plastic ones they love that
I love you videos and I love love love the way you set up tanks and the live plants you use.. I wish I knew you in person for you to show me how to set up a beautiful tank!!
“They are not suicidal, they will eat!” -inspirational, amaz8ng, touching
Does anybody know how I can get my freeze dried baby shrimp to sink for the frogs? I am gonna try soaking them but I dont know if that will work.
Love your videos!
Couldn’t the ADF escape with that water level being high w/o lid? Don’t bloodworm cause ADF dropsy? Just asking.
Will blood worms be the main diet of these frogs?
I just drop a variety of dried food items in my tank day to day. Blood worms, betta food, brine shrimp, other fish foods, and my frogs feed just fine. I have two males and one female.
I bought two dwarf frogs, but they told me distilled water which is what they are in. I want to get a bigger tank and add fish which can’t live in distilled water. How would you do this?
Thanks 😊
Unfortunately these frogs have the tendency to jump out of the tank, if it's an open top.
Nicole Novo they haven’t she said, for the two years she had them
Mine has never tried to jump
It’s called FLOATING PLANTS. I’ve seen PLENTY of fish owners use them to prevent their fish from jumping out
@Nicole Novo - YOUR comment is stupid. Shut up!
I use R/O you mentioned something about remineralizing it?
Jonah Hill yes with general and carbonate hardness for the fish and plants. I use the aqua vitro line of liquid remineralizers
What is the name of the light you used?
My frogs have a red lump and a white pink in the other have u had that problem?
How much would your tanks cost?
What type of light is this?
Where did you get the tank?
What tank is that it looks amazing
Good desk tank for snails i think!!!
So I'm curious to know how the frogs did?
what substrate do you use
She got them front tanks ya feel me
I use frozen brine. Just throw the cube in and they eat it as it separates and settles at the bottom.
I do this once a week and I use pellets every other day. They eat, I promise.
Can 1 betta live with 1 or 2 frogs in a five gallon
Adf can eat pellets quite easily ,as their sense of smell is extremely developed
mine never touched any dried food, they only take living or defrosted food.
I just get the frozen block water logged enough to sink. Then use big tweezers to drop it directly in front of the frog and he eats them up. I also have fish that eat the worms so the movement of the fish triggers the frog to eat.
great video! thanks for all the info. I have a fluval spec 5 and am gonna house 2 ADFs. do you think adding a betta will be too much?
4 months late, I know, but a 5 gallon is TOO small for 2 african dwarf frogs and a Betta; the ammonia will spike frequently, and they need more room. You have to choose either the 2 frogs, or the Betta. The reason being, adf are pretty calm bottom dwellers, and bettas are known to be aggressive. If it doesn't work out, like it did with my two adf and betta at first, you'll have to divide the tank. I divided my 10 gallon because my betta was territorial, and almost bit one of my frogs, but dividing them helped him get along with the frogs. In conclusion, the bigger the tank the better. Personally, I think my 10 gallon is small lol
Should be fine 5 gal is plenty of room
you absolutely need a lid hun. Trust me when i say that one day, they will try to get out. theyre curious critters and have all day to play and wander around, they will get curious and go over the other side.
They don’t need to go outside and walk around, just to get air, they often jump out because they are curious and don’t understand what happens if they jump out
PetTide I’m well aware they don’t jump out just to get air. They will also jump out of the water if the water parameters in the aquarium aren’t correct.
Tia Tokkesdal yeah, but that’s similar to lots of fish
PetTide frogs are amphibians fish aren’t. They can live in similar conditions but that’s about as much as they have in common.
Tia Tokkesdal yes but these frogs are *fully* aquatic, they’ll die in under half an hour of air
I have these frogs live worms are best but I usually just throw in frozen worm cubes and they figure it out .
Would you know how to treat bloat in African D frog
Can you make a video cleaning out the tank?
Jess!!! I follow your Instagram and we are actually friends on Facebook. I didn’t know you were doing UA-cam but congrats! Subscribed and can’t wait to follow your journey!
Filter? Lid? Heater? The fact beta fish eat dwarf frogs so u need way more space? Minimum tank aside for one beta is 5 gallons?
can these be in cold water
This video is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for the information!
Next time though would it be possible for you to either write the plants and equipment brands down either on the screen or in the description? I am looking to start a frog tank but have no idea how to spell those plants names to be able to buy them lol
Is it safe to have a tank like this with two frogs and a beta?
I'm no expert but I've heard they're compatible but it depends on the temperament of them and the size of the tank. I have a 10 gallon with a male betta, 2 frogs and 5 tetras. So far its gone good, ive only had the frogs and tetras in the tank for a couple weeks and other than one of the frogs nipping a couple times when I first put them in I've had no problems :)
there's something moving in the substrate at the middle of the tank, looks like worms wiggling or something...
JackieJea yep live worms it's food
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I think I am in love!
How could I purchase a small tank set up and how much is it?!
Jacqueline Cianci I only did that for a couple local clients of mine in my town a few years ago I’m sorry.
Hello .. can we have more videos please ?
can you type out the plants you used? i couldnt quite get that accurate spelling of the names of the plants. im bringing in my classrooms fish tank (10 gal) a african dwarf frog. i want him or her to not feel stressed out.
rebecca durbin its in the description
awesome i see it. my kids (classroom) dwarf frog will be bunking with some dwarf gourmai fish. just 2 of them. hopefully no babies, but as one parent points out one of the fish is a female (pet shop assoc. accidentally gave me 1 male and 1 female)
wont they jump out of an opentop tank?
Dreamcee haven't had any in 2 years but a great thing to do as preventative measure
Dreamcee mine have
yes they will. maybe she took the lid off for the filming of this video.. at least i hope so, but i still doubt because of the water level. its to the top and if you put a lid on it, the frogs have no room to surface..
Will a Chinese algae eater attack the dwarf African frogs?
Where can I buy live food for my ADF?? Where do you buy your live blood worms
I would suggest to put a lid on it they jump out sometimes and dry up :
Can you tell me what kind of fish tank to purchase for ADF?
C Tatman anything 5 gallons or larger that holds water 😉
@@aquagirltalks479 the tank you used here is 4.4 gallons? In between using a four gallon cube or something bigger even though they seem to enjoy the four gallon cube with plants an rocks.
Oh my gosh, PLEASE get a lid for your tanks. Those things jump out while your gone, and there dead.
Its_MadisonSigel 22 oh bummer you’re two years late
Love your tanks
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