So, feed your frog good-quality sinking pellets as main meals and give it frozen or live treats every once in a while. This is not only beneficial for your frog but also less boring because a variety of food is always fun.
Here are my recommendations and reviews for the best African dwarf frog food currently on the market and what makes them the best. These pellets come with whole, fresh seafood as a source of marine proteins such as wild salmon, herring, shrimp, and halibut. Apart from proteins, these pellets are rich in many vitamins and nutrients, such as vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, vitamin B12, calcium, and more. So, not only are they healthier for my frog, but they also leave less waste for me to clean afterward.
Plus, there are plenty of vitamins and minerals, including but not limited to beta carotene, vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, vitamin B12, folic acid, biotin, calcium, manganese, thiamine, and riboflavin.
I also love how these pellets have probiotics, which help improve nutrient uptake, meaning that your aquatic friend will absorb all the nutrients better.
Probiotics also strengthen the immune system and reduce waste. Do you find yourself constantly worrying about whether commercial food is small enough for your aquatic friend or not? Is your aquatic frog giving you a hard time not touching any food? Its marine proteins include fish meal, squid meal, and shrimp meal.
Your amphibian companion will definitely benefit from these moist, protein-focused pellets, as no bite would go to waste. Not to mention the soft texture of the pellets will definitely get your frog to finish its meal in no time. Just like there are certain foods to focus on, there are also foods that you should skip altogether. Now, my Betta tries to steal from them but the ADF's have gotten so big and bold that he soon leaves them alone until they are done and then gets the leftovers.
I know that isn't exactly the answer you were wanting, but I found that the ADF's were just too dang slow to find and eat their food, that I had to make it a more frog friendly aquarium rather than a more diverse community.
I couldn't find a perfect solution. The baster worked the best, but it was still really difficult. Good luck! I use reptile tongs and hand feed mine. When feeding HBH frog and tadpole bites I soak first, then drop in an area in front of tank that is cleared of gravel. Makes it much easier for them to see and me to clean out the uneaten pellets.
Thanks for the tips and the post! Why haven't I thought of a turkey baster?! If the frogs see my hand they sometimes will jump at it for food, but not always. Which reminds me.. I need to feed them Little Kermit and Scout the froggies!
Had a tasty dinner last night of chicken! They and my guppies and Betta loved it! The frogs would get mad at the fish as the tried to steal their food and the fish aren't scared of me so using the turkey baster to shoo them off doesn't help much. Thanks guys for the tips! Now I really also want to try earthworms.. I wonder if there will be many around right now Can you freeze earthworms after cutting them up?
Click to expand We always feed them the same as the other fish in the tank. Two different kinds of flakes, frozen brine shrimp , and blood worms but not all at the same time They are always fat and seem happy. In the thread I linked to above - look at 7 by frogbreeder. It was for a certain baby wild starling someone accidently powerwashed. The poor baby had hardly any feathers and was barely alive and breathing. A heated blanket, warm breath and some yummy food brought him back!
Whenever someone came to our door he would try to get in the house or land on their arms.. As he got colder and fall came on, I no longer called to him, or if I did he wouldn't come. We still saw him in our little pear tree and over time he joined the nearby flock! Can I feed the ADF ghost shrimp? I got some from petsmart just the other day, and ended up losing some new shipment into store probably just way stressed anyway, I took a couple out and cut off the pinchers just as precaution I guess and cut them into smaller pieces then fed them to my hungry froggies.
They gobbled it right up and begged for more! The fish of course wanted some and got into a small argument over a piece of one with two ADF's. I know now they like and will eat it, do they have any nutritional value or will they harm the frogs if I feed them this once in a while? I didn't kill them even though fish just eat them anyway..
Just wanted to clear that up so no one freaks out while reading this Going out of town for a week. Will my adf be okay? A week is to long for the ADF's to go without food and not be fed. Fish should be fine. ADF's are pretty slow when finding food and most likely the fish will find it first.
I don't quite understand your post - are you having someone come by to feed the fish or do you mean you are feeding the fish and frogs right before you leave? If you're having someone come by to feed the fish, can they also feed the frogs?
My family will be here to feed the fish, but I will not. At the moment the fish food is just in pill organizers, easy to feed. The adf food is frozen and my entire family besides me is disgusted by the bloodworms. I give fish sinking shrimp pellets every now and then and the frogs come up and peck at the food. I can try to get them to feed the blood worms, but I'm worried about overfeeding as well.
I hardly ever feed the 2 frogs the whole block of food, the fish eat some as well in boht tanks. How about getting them some frozen Mysis Shrimp by Hikari. The Mysis are less messy than brine. They may not find them so gross. You could then cut the cube while still frozen and put it in little plastic zip pill pouches, or wrap them up while still frozen in a small piece of tin foil. Don't put in tank frozen. They would need to be defrosted first with a little tank water and if they can they can use a pair of reptile tongs to feed them.
This way they wouldn't have to put their hands in unless your tank is much deeper. The tongs are at Petco and Petsmart for If you're using a commercial aquatic frog food , then follow the instructions on the label. Most of them specify three or four pellets per frog, per meal.
In nature, African dwarf frogs are omnivorous semi-scavengers, which basically means that they'll eat pretty much anything, dead or alive, that they can fit into their mouths. They especially enjoy eating live food, but there are very few creatures small enough for ADFs to eat alive. In captivity, African dwarf frogs should be also fed a variety of foods.
A commercial aquatic frog food from a reputable manufacturer should be a big part of their diet. Commercial frog foods from reputable manufacturers are well-balanced and form the basis for a healthy, if rather boring diet. They shouldn't be all that you feed your frogs, but they should be on the menu. Personally, I feed my frogs pellets on Mondays when they're especially hungry because they haven't been fed over the weekend. I do alternate the brands for variety's sake, but all my frogs get pellets on Mondays to help assure that they get all the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that they need.
The Monday meal may be better-balanced, but the Wednesday and Friday meals are more to my frogs' liking. They are chosen from the following delicious menu:. For beginners, I suggest that you buy one package each of frozen beef heart and frozen bloodworms for your frogs from a local pet shop. They're not very expensive, especially since our frogs require so little food. These foods come frozen in cubes that are sized so that one cube will feed three ADFs if they're on the feeding schedule that I use.
If you need to cut the cubes, a knife that's been heated under hot tap water does the trick nicely. When you feed your frogs frozen foods, thaw them out first.
The frogs will be more likely to eat them and will be better able to digest them if they are at the same temperature as the water. The easiest way to thaw them is to just plunk them in a Dixie cup of water that's about the same temperature as the water in the tank. All of the above foods are also available in freeze-dried versions. If you choose to use freeze-dried foods, you must rehydrate it first by putting it in water and letting it sit for a while until it's soft.
If you don't rehydrate it, the food will be very difficult for your frogs to digest and will likely cause bloating. In nature and in captivity, African dwarf frogs are weakly nocturnal. They tend to be slightly more active at night, and that's when they usually do most of their foraging and feeding in the wild. If you wanted to simulate their wild environment as closely as possible, then feeding them at night that is, as soon as the day light in their tank is turned off would be part of that.
The problem is that it's more difficult to gauge the amount of food your frogs eat and to remove uneaten food when the tank is darkened. Also, frogs are just barely nocturnal, so it really doesn't make that big a difference when they eat. They adapt to day feeding just fine. I suggest that new keepers feed their frogs during the day. Once you get familiar enough with their eating habits that you can measure out the amount of food they're going to eat without there being leftovers, then you can feed them at night if you like.
Personally, I feed my frogs in the morning. In nature, ADFs are bottom feeders, so many people suggest feeding them by placing their food on the bottom of the tank using a turkey baster. Many keepers also suggest using a small terra cotta plate like the ones that go under flowerpots, and placing the food in the plate on the bottom of the tank so the frogs know where to find it. They don't see very well, so putting the food in the same place all the time helps them find it more easily.
This is an excellent way to feed your frogs if your tank doesn't have much water movement. Personally, however, I don't use either of those methods anymore.
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