African Dwarf Frog Question...Second Time?

Question

This is the second time I am posting this because I didn't really get enough answers the first time...Please help if you have any idea!

I went away for 5 days and before I left I noticed that my African Dwarf Frog appeared to be shedding. I don't know a whole lot about keeping these frogs and I was kinda in a hurry so I figured that was all it was. When I came back he was dead. I wasn't sure what would have killed him so I checked my water parameters ( I had left a food block in the tank for the 5 days) and everything was okay. I made sure my heater and filter were working fine, everything was okay. The only thing I had in the tank with it was a female betta (and if you're just going to say the betta killed it...please don't waste your time answering) which never bothered the frog, and a mystery snail. I fed him 2 shrimp pellets for bottom feeders everyday once in the morning and once at night since this was the only thing I could get him to eat. Any ideas on why he died? I am just concerned because I would like to get 2 more sometime soon but I want to make sure I didn't do anything wrong...cuz I don't want the them to die also. I did buy him from Walmart so do you think I just got an unhealthy frog (if I wasn't doing anything wrong that is)? The other thing is I put 1 Tablespoon freshwater salt to every 5 gallons in my tank, all my fish seem to thrive with this amount but is it too much for the frog?

Answer 1

frogs can go with out salt as i have had mine for 3 years now the reason why he might have died is because frogs like frozen or fresh bloodworms not just flakes as frogs are bottom dwellers and when fresh or frozen bloodworms seperates they fall to the bottom where the frogs can feed from which they like the only time frogs come to the surface is to get a gasp of air otherwise they stay to the bottom of the tank without fail honestly hope this helps u out and please do get some more as these are lovely frogs but just next time you go away get a family member or friend to come round and feed your fish and frogs, bloodworms/frozen/live/flakes etc  

Answer 2

You probably just had an unhealthy one. As the person above said, you should feed them bloodworms. Thats what i always fed mine.

Dont be scared to get some more frogs. Im sure what happened was just because he wasnt very healthy. :)

Answer 3

I say it was 50% the salt 25% the food block and 25% his inability to go 5 days w/o food.

Frogs can't tolerate salt at all...AT ALL!!! lol no salt. most of his death is explained there.

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He partially starved as they don't have the same metabolism as fish and depending on his age store fat poorly. They need a constant stream of high protein food.

The only 2 foods you feed frogs are frozen blood worms and/or HBH frog and tadpole bites.

I prefer bio-max hikari frozen blood worms. There vitamin infused aswell which is very important. He may not have had a good fat or vitamin store and would have a hard time making the week.

Added to that the pollution from the feeding block (never ever use them)

as frogs are 70% the water in the tank which makes them extremely sensitive to poor water quality. The betta can withstand it a little better because he gets his air from the surface and is a tougher creature overall.

Fish can go 7 days w/o food easy just do a water change and feed them normally and go.

Anything over that get a buddy or an auto feeder to feed them.

I quit keeping frogs with fish a while ago as they really thrive in there own little 5 or 10 gallon.

The shedding is normal and most will rip off there body and eat it.

If he was weak he maybe got himself into trouble with the shedding processed and drowned. It's not unheard of as all people know...

These guys are cute but there extremily stupid.

Hope this helps

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