Well, I have to admit that we've been wondering about whether the water temperature was causing stress... Does anyone else have an opinion? Does anyone actually heat the water before they clean their aquarium? I've never done this with tropical fish. How would you heat it, if you were going to do this?

We have a thermometer on the aquarium (the stick-on kind) that says that the water's at 75 degrees, and the heater is set to 79, but I'm going to borrow a "floater" today and double check the numbers. I would assume the difference is because the outside thermometer is sensing through the glass and I'd' expect it to be colder out there.

It's really weird: my son's school has 2 ADFs in one of those tall "tube" aquariums with a plant at the top and no heater: and they're fine.

We did lose our remaining 2 froggies... the last 2 were a lot more typical in that they bloated and floated at the end. There was some red on their underbellies so I suspect a bacterial infection - red leg?

Besides tempterature my other chief suspect is the frozen bloodworms. They seem to "choke" on them sometimes and the frog that lasted the longest is the one who ate the least. Can you have a bad batch? Is there anything else I can feed these guys as a staple diet?

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