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Hi everyone:

I have three great ADF's and tons of tads. I just noticed that the hobbyist site had a section for frogs!

Right now, I'm working on learning more about live foods - here's my most recent journal entry:

I've been trying to keep a variety of live food for my aquatic family which includes a dwarf puffer tank, three African dwarf frogs with a breeder box with 30+ tadpoles, a mixed tetra tank, and an outdoor water garden with goldfish.

I have my brine shrimp hatchery one of those cheap ones you just add a bottle to and a pump I bought my eggs & brine shrimp food from http://www.lfscultures.com/kits.html

I also ordered a large daphnia culture like 500+ daphnia pulex from them. I started two green water tanks before the shipment arrived. I have a small container in the house in case the one outside crashes. I have one tank with daphnia and snails outside on my patio.

And I have a reserve green water tank outside for the daphnia. I noticed the other day that it's full of mosquito larvae. So, I've been netting them the large ones and rinsing them and feeding them to my tetra tank [they love them!] and to my dp [who seems to really like them too!] I hope it's ok to feed live mosquito larvae to them - I guess the draw back would be the fear of growing mosquitoes in your house! My fish don't seem to leave any after just a couple minutes they've mowed right through them and the fish net seems to just get the large larvae right out if I wait for them to surface.

I have some live tubifex worms in the frig that I've had for about a month in a shallow plastic container with a lid with pin holes in it. I've been feeding them flake fish food and baby food every few days and rinsing daily. I haven't noticed any dead ones except those trying to escape who get stuck on the lid.

So, my dwarf puffer gets snails, brine shrimp, daphnia, live larvae, and live tubifex worms. Buffy seems to be doing well and is friendly greeting me asking for food.

I like the whole circle of life thing the dirty tank water feeds the green water, the green water feeds the little daphnia and larvae which in turn feed the fish!

My goldfish also seem to love the larvae & brine shrimp. My frogs get live tubifex worms, frozen blood worms, frozen glass worms and brine shrimp.

Here's a recent picture!

Later,
Leilani

Our Frog Journal

I'm not sure but according to Pipidae.net Bloodworms and Tubifex worms can cause bloated frogs. Do you have any experience in this?
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CokeOfMan

I'm very active on that site and have never read that or experienced any problems with feeding them appropriate amounts [remember the size of the stomachs tiny frogs modest tummies] of any food live worms, frozen and otherwise. The live ones must be rinsed thoroughly.

Leilani
Our Frog Journal

Ok, thanks. Very nice site BTW just checked it out, like the journal as well.
From what I understood none of your tadpoles has metamorphed in to frogs? I've heard it's hard to do, but I'm thinking about buying a few ADFs and trying. Researching right now though.
Are you going to try to raise more tadpoles?
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CokeOfMan

Yeah, we stopped trying for a year and fed our ADF's baby fry who in turn ate the eggs. We were really sad after loosing our tads last year. But it's been a while and we're trying again!

This time we're using a breeder net inside the bigger ADF tank 10g with the adults. Right now, we have maybe 30-40 tads swimming around in their little net!

Thanks for your comments on our site. When we started keeping ADF's I couldn't find much info so I started complying it for friends and others who were curious.

Leilani

Our Frog Journal

Good luck with the tads
What does a breeder net look like?
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CokeOfMan

I've heard the bloodworm thing too,but that pertains to the packaged dried ones.Not the live or frozen ones.

Nice site by the way.It is great to see other people that are interested in and love these frogs.It seems like interest and genuine concern for them is finally growing.

thanks for the great feedback!

Leilani
Our Frog Journal