do you have dwarf frogs?

[DiscusIt'sWhats4DinneR]

i love these frogs.. why does it seem no one else keeps these?

[Natty]

Originally Posted by DiscusIt'sWhats4DinneR

why does it seem no one else keeps these?

Actually.....good question.

Thinking about it, I guess I was never really fascinated enough to actually get one. To me they were more like "oh! Neat, what's next?"

Another big reason is that they don't eat fishflakes. If I try to drop food down towards them to eat, my other fish would just end up eating it first. So it's going to be hard to feed them as well. What I've always wanted was this:

Pipa Pipa <--Click For Video

They're cool and all but watching videos like that makes me feel like the time my cousin had this huge pimple on his nose that he left throughout the day, I was dying to pop it. Drove me crazy.

[frogmanjared]

Pipa pipa... I almost caught a wild one in Peru!... it gets pretty big, so I'm waiting for Pipa parva... the dwarf species to be for sale in the US, only one supplier has them and their constantly sold out!
http://www.xenopus.com/parva.htm

Another reason why people don't buy them is that they will nip at longfinned fishes and give them rugged edges.

[ChadEmrick]

I had an african clawed frog.

It was nice and tiny when I bought it. A cute little thing.

Well then it grew up hahaha.

I should have done my research, and I didn't.

It ate repto min sticks, and they floated and took FOREVER to sink. My fish normally ate most of it before the frog got any, and as the fish picked at it, pieces fell off and dirtied my water big time.

The frog also ripped up my plants bad. I had artificial back then, so it wasn't as bad of a problem since they couldn't die. But if I had live ones then, they all would have been torn to bits. Not the most graceful creatures out there.

Those problems might not exist with a dwarf frog, so I don't know about them specifically. I would think the repto min food pellets would still be annoying though. You could feed them brine shrimp and blood worms though I guess, as long as your fish didn't get them all before the frog found them.

[dr.tran]

There are some real dwarf frogs but they are not clawed. They are nice but the problem is that they will eat ur fish and shrimps.

[DiscusIt'sWhats4DinneR]

i ave kept shrimp in the tank with my 3 frogs. i had four but one...left one day. i picked a pillow off the floor there was a dead frog under it!!

today i got 3 more.. they do eat flakes that sink to the bottom because they will eat anything they can. these guys are scavegers. they love bloodworms like nothing else. i have watched two of them fight over the same worm flinging around in circles for a couple minutes. they are pretty cool. chicks dig em too.
the pipa pipa vid was cool! natty, next time ask him if he knows what a pipa pipa is and when he says "huh?" grab his nose!

[SeaSerpant]

That pipa pipa video was, to me, DISGUSTING! It made me feel quezy. I had 3 dwarf frogs in my aquarium. They eat anything that is on the ground, flakes, bloodworms, sinking pelets. I have never seen them going after any of my fish. Just a few days ago i found a leg bone from a frog uncovered by another frog. So now i only have 2 frogs left. But they are awesome and fun.

[newlyearthbound]

I have a 6g planted tank with 5 ADF in it. they crack me up some days. I have an oto in there and some snails to keep it clean and one time the food landed behind the oto so one of the frogs came over and bit the oto on the nose to get it to move out of the way. bully frog!

[MikeS]

I have one in my 210. Real PITA to find half the time, but he has been in there for a month or two, no problems.