How Much Do I feed my ADF
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i used to feed my 3 incher (ACF, not dwarf) about 2-3 times a day...give or take for what i had time for.
have you tried pieces of nightcrawlers?
tear off little pieces of these guys, put them onto the end of a wire clothes hanger and dangle them in front of your frogs mouth.
i used to do this with my ACF, but not with a dwarf.... it would probably still work if the chunks are small enough.
M
have you tried pieces of nightcrawlers?
tear off little pieces of these guys, put them onto the end of a wire clothes hanger and dangle them in front of your frogs mouth.
i used to do this with my ACF, but not with a dwarf.... it would probably still work if the chunks are small enough.
M
I have been feeding him one bloodworm three times a day till yesterday. He started trying to nip at the Tetras. They did sort of start picking on him first but since then when they come around he jumps at them and bites their fins. I thought ok maybe he is hungry and I am not feeding him enough as I know from a past ADF if he was hungry nothing was safe in the tank! So I fed him 3 worms twice yesterday and a few shrimp and he left the Tetras alone. Just wanted to make sure I wasnt over feeding the little guy.
This sounds really weird to me? How long have you had your ADF? I have been keeping ADFs for over 12 years now and I have never had a problem with them being agressive towards other fish. Is it possible that you were sold an african clawed frog under the name of ADF? I have seen it happen in many fish stores. The 3 ADFs that I have right now will eat flake, freeze-dried food, algae wafers. I have seen them eat off of the bottom as well. In all the years that I have had them I have never had to feed them live food, and they all have lived for years.
T/A- Are they not eating, or have you not seen them eat? What happens to the food that you put in there for them? Do you have to take it out after awhile? I didn't see my frogs eat much either, but like jd_energy says, they must because they are still alive. When I see them at the surface sometimes I drop some freeze-dried bloodworms in there and they go wild.
T/A- Are they not eating, or have you not seen them eat? What happens to the food that you put in there for them? Do you have to take it out after awhile? I didn't see my frogs eat much either, but like jd_energy says, they must because they are still alive. When I see them at the surface sometimes I drop some freeze-dried bloodworms in there and they go wild.
No he is an ADF. I put the bloodworm in right above him and wham in his mouth it goes. The Tetras love them as well. I can always tell when he has eaten, if I didn't see him eat. His little belly gets bigger than usual. They go by smell and sometimes he moves around a bit before he eats.
He doesn't really hurt the Tetras. He is giving them back what they give him. They come over and nip at him so off he goes for payback. He does grab their back fin with his little hand and the Neons pull him around the tank a while. They love him and stay right with him but the Black Phantoms are the ones picking at him.
He doesn't really hurt the Tetras. He is giving them back what they give him. They come over and nip at him so off he goes for payback. He does grab their back fin with his little hand and the Neons pull him around the tank a while. They love him and stay right with him but the Black Phantoms are the ones picking at him.
I have not seen them eat. I had a live anacharis plant in there for the first few days but it was dying because the water was to warm for that plant. Is it possible that they were eating that? I have tried dropping food right in front of them and only once did one frog eat a bloodworm. I guess I should try the earthworms and see what happens with that.