I have a two gallon hex with two dwarf aquatic frogs (male and female) and an oto. I feed my frogs shrimp pellets that sink to the bottom of the tank. The problem is, my female is biggger than my male and she's getting all the food. So she is very overweight and my male is really skinny and weak. (Also I checked to make sure she wasn't just pregnant, and she is not) How do I get her to stop eating all the food?
Feeding Trouble
- Thread starter honeybee105
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Put her in another tank? That's the only thing I can think of besides letting her stuff her face then adding extra food so that the male can eat while the female can't fit anymore into her greedy gut. That's how I feed the oscars and their tankmates. I get the oscars all stuffed on big foods for them, then feed the smaller fish the little food. The oscars try to eat the small foods, but they can't, their mouths are too crammed <LOL>.
The only problem with this method is that it produces a whole lot of waste, which in your small tank, might not be a good thing.
~~Colesea
The only problem with this method is that it produces a whole lot of waste, which in your small tank, might not be a good thing.
~~Colesea
Maybe at feeding time you could move the female to a large glass jar or somthing and get her used to not eating so much :
while you feed the male in the original tank. Afterwards move the female back. That way, you wouldn't have to get a new tank and it would probably save you some money. If the moving around stresses out the female, you might just have to move her permanently. Good luck ;D!
~aquaticgypsy
while you feed the male in the original tank. Afterwards move the female back. That way, you wouldn't have to get a new tank and it would probably save you some money. If the moving around stresses out the female, you might just have to move her permanently. Good luck ;D!~aquaticgypsy