Always consult a qualified veterinarian for advice. It's best to select a captive-bred frog from a reputable breeder or rescue organization. The group should be able to tell you the animal's origin and health history.
Healthy frogs are active swimmers that hide frequently and have clear eyes and smooth skin. Be wary of a lethargic frog that doesn't readily accept food when it's offered, as such an animal is likely sick. Otherwise, check out other types of reptiles and amphibians that can be your new pet. African Clawed Frogs. McNamara, Sean et al. Methods in molecular biology Clifton, N.
Johnston, Jessica M et al. Collagenoma in an African Clawed Frog Xenopus laevis. Comparative medicine vol. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights.
Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. In This Article Expand. Behavior and Temperament. Food and Water. Health Problems. Similar Species. What Do Frogs Eat? I have had two African Clawed Frogs in a five gallon tank, and they have been thriving and healthy for nearly four years.
I got them for my birthday when I turned ten. I got them from Grow a Frog when they were tadpoles, and they seem really happy together.
I have one female, named Fredrieka, and one male, named Kermit. I have seen them mate before, but I was wondering if there was a way for me to get them to have tadpoles. I was also wondering how, or if I could make them a little bit happier. Thank you! I like their names! Have you tried simulating a breeding season yet?
Check the breeding section of this post — link here. That should get you headed in the right direction! Hey John! I am planning on getting an ACF in the next week or so and am struggling with finding the right size gravel online. Any links to some good medium sized gravel? Hi, Emily! You can always go without gravel until you get the chance to browse a local pet store! I have one ACF in a 10g with a couple of fish.
About to upgrade to a 29g. What fish are best for the frog? I want some more clean up crew. I was thinking a catfish? Maybe a bristlenose? A catfish will eventually get too big lol. The aqua store advised me to take coral pebbles to soften the water. Is this vital for them.
Are they really useful for them because it naturally crumbles and there is dust. Should i remove them? It depends on how hard your water is to begin with. On the other hand, he might have been hired last week with no real knowledge of how to care for pets lol. Untreated tap water often contains chlorine or chloramines. Use a dechlorination agent or allow the water to sit out for 24 hours before using that water.
The water source you begin with might not need to be softened. I usually feed him about 4 in the morning and 4 in the night is that enough? I definitely recommend upgrading his enclosure! Yes, you can add another ACF. Be careful how you do this though.
The adult will likely kill the small one. What you really need to watch is their size. My son has a ACF about 10 years now.
We just moved her to a 20 gallon tank and now has a heater and filter. Since we moved her she had started laying eggs. We have never seen this before and wondering what we need to do. What type of sanitation crew would work with my Queen Nefertiti and her mate Oshun? They are in a 25 gallon tank, with 5 recently added Malaysian snails.
My ACF laid eggs the other night. I had got them moved into a separate tank and now instead of circles they look like little grains of rice. I have had an ACF for about 2 years now in a 55 gal. Do you know what it might mean? The frog seems healthy and happy. Could it just be happier than it was before?
Or would it be a sign of stress from the move? My guess is that the temperature of the water is more suitable to their liking! Could this be accurate? I have had my ACF for a few months now in a 35gal, and he has made croaking sounds from the start.
He started croaking a few days after i brought him home and does it every night. Not sure if this helps at all? I moved her from a 10 gallon to a 20 gallon about 2 years ago and I also switched from pellets to live food at the same time. I use a Marineland biowheel filter and tap water. She seemed to love the new tank and new food. I tested her water with a testing strip and found it was off the charts in every category except nitrites, which was zero.
I used Prime water conditioner. That was yesterday. Also, she molted maybe twice? A completely different issue I wanted to ask about… She has had a lump on her lower left abdomen for years. She used to be on small gravel and I assumed she had eaten some but it has never gone away. Should I have a vet look at it?
She may have consumed a piece of small gravel. I have raised African Albino claw frogs for many years. My first male lived for 28 years. We are working on starting over again. Right now we have an adult female and have ordered one new female and one male. How long should we keep them isolated from our other female?
Thank you for this site I was thrilled to hear so many who are frog people too!!!! Hi, Terri! You can keep them isolated for two — four weeks.
A juvenile ACF might get picked-on by an adult, for example. I have a couple questions. So my ACF was doing very well. She was very small and She was a very healthy eater would eat wax worms every 2 days or earth worms every 2 days. Over the past month she has drastically reduced how much she eats and almost looks like she has seizure actionS every now and then.
She used to come up to the side of the tank and was always right there to greet you. She just wants to hide all the time. I am wondering if she has maybe ingested rocks would this effect her? Is there a way to help get the rocks out. Besides the fact that I was misinformed greatly by the pet store what kind of frog it was and also that she was supposed to be for my son, I have grown cray attached to her and love her company. Thank you for the time to read this.
Your page has been extremely helpful. Hey there! Definitely switch to rocks that are too big for her to eat.
I would encourage you to contact a local vet to see what they recommend. Also, what is the water quality like? It was funny as my ACF used to try catch them. They are gone now just my ACF is left. For some reason after giving away the fish.
This is interesting. My large, albino frog escaped the tank sometime early this morning. Surprisingly the frog was still alive, but hours later died. I have no idea how long he was out of the water. I still have a smaller calmer green one, so I hope that one has a long life ahead of him.
I have a fully grown albino ACF that is currently in a 55 gallon tank with other fish. I am considering downsizing and moving the frog to a 10 gallon tank in my sons room. He would be either by himself or possible with 1 other fish. Will this be a safe move since he is used to being in a larger tank? Hi, we have 3 African Clawed 2 albino and one not which has recently changed colour to be almost black!?
How old is the one that recently changed in color? They do have the ability to change color! Thanks, not entirely sure how old but we think close to 10yrs, and the change has only happened in the past few months. They mostly eat anything you give them lol. You could try switching back to their old food and seeing if that helps?
I have two albino clawed frogs, one of them is really plump and the other one is very skinny and keeps going into the corner and bumping into it. Are the two frogs around the same age and size aside from plumpness?
When you feed them, does the smaller one get a chance to eat? Hi John! One of my two clawed frogs passed recently. Does my other frog need a friend? Are they social creatures? There are currently 6 fish in his 20 gallon tank they are all over 1 inch.
I made the mistake of having a smaller fish once and you can guess what happened. I get this question a lot and I wish I knew the answer. I have a 20 gallon tank with 2 ADFs.
Are you keeping them well fed? It seems I just get attached to them and then they die. We have a 65 gal tank, water temp is degrees. The other one stayed alive a few weeks later, but quit eating.
We have an angel and 3 silver dollars as well as a pletco an upside down cat fish and an albino cat fish. Can the water temp be lowered to degrees and the other fish be okay?
We really would like to get a couple more frogs, but want them to live longer than a couple years. I miss seeing our frogs. I recommend lowering the temperature a little. Between 65 — 72 degrees Fahrenheit. Also, how often do you do water changes and how do you do them?
Also, what type of water are you using and you treating it? I like the idea of not having gravel but the artificial plants I have need an anchor. Also I have a 16 gallon tank with 12 inches of water and they love it and will prop up by one foot to peep out the water.
I believe my frog has dropsey. He is very bloated. He looks like the frog Shrek blew up and made a balloon out of. Can I use aquarium salt to help him? So Ive had my ACF For almost a year and recently he started turning a little bit darker with some black marks on him.
The color change happened randomly but if you have some incite that would be awesome! Can you safely house 2 ACF together in the same tank? But I have been considering getting another one but I got him by accident. Yes, they can be kept together. Putting a juvenile ACF with an adult might cause problems. I believe so. Make sure the gravel is too big for the frogs to eat. My big Albino Clawed Frog jumped out of the tank.
I am not sure how long he was out, maybe overnight. I found him at the front door in the morning. I figured he would be dead, but he wasnt. In a tank young frogs are fed with bloodworm, tubifex live or frozen. The adult species eat bloodworm as well, but large sized and worms, new born mice.
You can train to eat sliced seafood — prawns, calamari. As for those who like watching how predators feed, they can put some foraging fish into a tank — for example, guppy and watch how the frogs prey on them.
Clawed frogs are predators, in the wild they feed on small fishes and spineless species and everything they can swallow.
Unlike other amphibians it is easy to tell between male and female. The latter is noticeably larger than the male this is due to a very interesting way of the breeding and it has three skin folds covering its cloaca.
Becomes reproductive at the age of 2 years old. Mating and breeding lasts for the whole summer. During this time the male develops kind of black stripes along its fingers and along its limbs.
In the wild breed from August to December, but as a rule on sale you can see the frogs that are bred in tanks regardless of their mating season. To stimulate the spawning process you should create hibernation.
There they spend two weeks and then you have to put them into an ordinary tank. Few days later turn on the heater and start feeding and make the tank water temperature about 22 — 25oC.
Spawning usually starts at night — the male tightly holds the female with its fore feed and joins their cloaks, they can stay in this pose for several hours, till morning as a rule. After spawning the frogs start shedding, at that the skin first sheds on their limbs and then the process moves toward the mouth and finally swallows the shed skin.
Approximately in an hour or hour and a half the female starts to lay eggs on tank plants, sticking them to their leaves. The female can lay one or eggs at once. Clawed frogs are very fertile — the number of the eggs may be about 15,
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