African clawed frogs

[amaruq]

Anyone have them? Are they pretty easy? Any info appreciated?:rolleyes:

[Claudia]

I have 3 of them, they are easy to care for and they are beautiful. If u have any questions just let me know :)

[Gage]

i have an albino one, they are very easy, but mine has a problem as of right now, it seems bloated with air, it goes away and comes back all the time, i really dont understand what it is, ive been researching and cant find it, but anyway.

- they get 5" nose to bum
- they eat whatever they can get in their mouth (i know someones 5" one that died from - - - trying to eat a 3" corycat

any other questions, as mentioned, ask away ::D:

[Jungle Girl]

Gage & Claudia,

Do you have a heater in your ACF tanks?

I bought a little lonely skinny one at the pet store and she ended up floating then dying. I was thinking I should have given her a heater, but I thought they didn't mind room temperature water... I used to take care of some in a university lab ages ago and they didn't have heaters either.

Also, do you use a filter?

I read somewhere that the noisy vibrations of a filter really stresses them out.

[Canadian]

I have 3 of them, they are easy to care for and they are beautiful. If u have any questions just let me know :)

PRETTY? THESE UGLY THINGS ARE NOT PRETTY! they scare me ::(:
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[Claudia]

I do have a filter, air stone and heater. They eat what ever they find on the gravel like left over food from the fish but i do feed them frog bites that my catfish love eat it. Here is a picture of 2 of them
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[CACAdmin]

They're cute. The blue gravel really shows them off too.

[Claudia]

thanks :)

[Jungle Girl]

Hey Claudia, those are DWARF african clawed frogs (Hymenochirus boettgeri) you have there.
Sorry, I thought you guys were talking about regular african clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) like the one in Canadian's picture...

I do find the Xenopus kind of ugly too, but they have winning personalities! I wouldn't recommend mixing them with fish. They get too big and they're real piggy.

I think a couple of Hymenochirus in a tank would be cool, but not with bottom-feeding fish because the frogs are prone to feeding frenzies (i.e., lunge-biting at anything that moves)!!!

[amaruq]

Cool frogs!!!! I went and got myself 2...I also got myself a 20 gallon tank. Thanks for replying :)

Now I was wondering if there are any lizard that live in the aquarium with the fish?

[Claudia]

I have my frogs with corys and plecos and other fishies too, I have no problem they all get along well. I have a salamander in a 10g community tank too

[Jungle Girl]

NO WAY!!! Lizards can't go in a fish tank!!!

Just get another tank and have fun decorating for a reptile! A leopard gecko would be a good choice for a first lizard. Mine is such a sweetheart.

If you want to keep the aquatic feel, set up a cold-water tank for NEWTS! Both the California/Oregon/Rough-skinned newts (Torosa sp.) and the firebelly newts (Cynops sp.) are mostly aquatic and a lot of fun to keep. Just be sure to stick with only one species in the tank; amphibians don't mix like fish do. The only fish I would put in a newt tank are white cloud mountain minnows.

Check out caudata.org (http://www.caudata.org) for more info on "lizard-like" amphibians.

[amaruq]

Nah i decided againt the lizard idea (newts).

Jungle Girl? What is your avatar of? Can you give info to me please? They look kind of cool!

[Jungle Girl]

Hey Amaruq,
Those are two of my rope fish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus). I have three. They're probably around 9" long now, brown on top and orange underneath... I LOVE THEM!!!
They need a big tank (at least 70 gallons) with a secure cover. They are kind of shy, mostly nocturnal, and carnivorous. They are the WHOLE REASON I GOT INTO AQUATICS!!!

[amaruq]

They are cool!!! My tank is too small for those but it's interesting to learn about other fish! Thanks for the info :)