What would be the best food for albino clawed frog?

Question

What would be the best food for albino clawed frog?

Answer 1

probaly insects like cickets or just go ask ur local pet store.

Answer 2

I used to feed mine sinking pellets, shrimp pellets would be good they would like those but they will eat the same food as your fish if you buy the sinking kind.

They dont much iike to come to the surface in my experiences, hope you have a top on the tank! I dont know why those silly buggars jump out.. dont they know they are aquatic frogs and will die without being in water??

Answer 3

I have two adult Albino Clawed Frogs and in the early days I realized that my male especially had a hard time getting food, especially with other bottom feeders in the tank.  Fortunately, the frogs will come to my hand, or accept food from my hand when I reach in to feed them.

My Clawed Frogs love blood worms, as someone else here mentioned.  I feed them the frozen cubes of blood worms.  I will also feed them beef heart, I fed them this more when I was concerned that they weren't getting enough food because the beef heart would stay together as it fell to the bottom of the tank, unlike the blood worms which quickly fell apart and this made it very difficult for the frogs to eat it with their hands.  I find that the sand substrate helps them to find their food easier as well.

I have also fed them the frozen brine shrimp, I'm always trying to add a new variety to their diet.  I don't feed mine feeder fish, because Lady (though there is nothing Lady Like about her!), the female Clawed Frog, would try to eat anything moving in the tank!  I actually find it very helpful that they will eat from my hand.. and they learned this quickly! I know how much food they are getting, and they are less likely to attempt to eat other fish! I do have my frogs with large fish, but Lady has still tried to eat them, while Freddie doesn't bother to try.  If you are not comfortable using your hands to feed, there are also long tong (sp?) like plastic sticks that you can buy from some fish stores that will allow you to hold onto a piece of food with the stick to feed the frog.



I also feed my Frogs live worms from the LFS.  I get mealie worms for my male, and the larger worms for my female. I started feeding them the container stuff of mealie worms and other critters for amphibians and reptiles, but now I just feed them live worms. I have a container without a lid in my fridge, I add some grain meal to the container and I add the worms.  The worms crawl into the grainy stuff and fall asleep in the cooler temperature.  When I feed my frogs the worms are still asleep.  The worms are also very cheap and the frogs love them!

Lady has been able to eat sinking Shrimp pellets, especially now with the sandy substrate, the shrimp stays on top of the sand.  However, I find that this is still a more difficult way to feed them, especially with other competitive fish.  If you keep your frogs alone in a tank (as many will suggest that you do) with sand it would be good to add some bottom feeder food (you can buy pellets for aquatic frogs) and let them hunt for it a bit!  But to ensure that they do eat enough I recommend feeding some by hand, besides its fun to do and the frogs will swim right into your hand, especially when they are younger they will swim between your fingers and stuff.  This has been something that I have really enjoyed as well.

My sister and I both fed our frogs tubifex worms, the dried cubes, when our frogs were young.  They loved it and were able to grasp onto the whole cube so they could eat some of it.  The caution I have with this is to be careful because eating too much of this stuff all at once can cause bloat.. especially since the dried worms expand once in their bellies.

Good luck with your frogs, they are Awesome!!!!

Stacey

Answer 4

bloodworm, bloodworm, and more bloodworm! they love the stuff and it's a fantastic staple for them!

you can buy it freeze dried, frozen, or fresh.  i'd reccommend using dried or frozen usually, and letting them have live ones as a treat every now and then.  

avoid anything oily or fatty, like feeders, whiteworm, maggotts... and stay away from mealworm, as the chitin fragments can muck up the filter.  

anything else, just ask :)