Yes. I even followed that old rule of "10 gallons per frog" and I STILL had trouble with water quality. The only way less than ten gallons will work is those automatic spigots that change water at different intervals in laboratories SEVERAL TIMES A DAY. That's why so many labs will say "1 gallon per frog."

So much is wrong about clawed frogs. For one thing, I learned the hard way until recently when my frogs died of bacterial infection. That idea about "keep the temp" above 78 degrees is so far from reality. Even laboratories have figured out that clawed frogs like COOL conditions. Go to www.xenopus.com and check out their "husbandry"

Xenopus laevis laevis are not tropical. South Africa is cool during the winter, and dry during the summer. It is very mild. Now, silurana tropicalis NEED warm water, as well as X. muelleri. I've even witnessed clawed frogs exposed to brief freezing with no apparent harm.

Dendrobates tinctorius
Epipedobates tricolor
Mantella betsileo
Bombina orientalis.

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