Feeding my frogs.

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I am having trouble feeding the frogs. They just dont seem to want to eat. I have flake food and sinking pellets for them.

One of the sinking pellets landed right on the frog and he just sat around.

Most of the food gets picked up by the fish prior to it even coming close to the frogs.

Any ideas or suggestions. I did a search and found some ideas like aiming the food at the frog but the fish still get it. I even used a turkey baster and shot the foor right to them, but the clown loaches eat it up as the frogs did not move. They only seem to move at night. should i just feed them at night maybe?

Thanks
 
i have never owned a frog that would eat flake food. i've tried sinking pellets (frog bits) but that didn't work either. they dissolved so fast that the frogs couldn't find the food & it just made a mess out of the tank. my african dwarf frogs love frozen blood worms & frozen brine shrimp.

i have found that sticking a chunk to the glass works better than just dropping a chunk in. when you drop in a chunk it just floats around while the other fish pick at it. it breaks apart & there are little pieces everywhere which the frogs never find. by sticking a chunk to the glass, the food stays in one place while the other fish pick at it. eventually it falls to the bottom still pretty much in tact where the frogs have a fighting chance of getting fed. i put it in the same spot that way it pretty much drops to the same spot every time. this makes it much easier for the frogs to find it......they're cute, but pretty dumb!!! *LOL*

don't worry if they don't always eat or get their fair share....they'll be fine. i feed mine every 2 or 3 days (always in the evening....seems to work better) & even then, they don't always go for the food.
 
Thanks for the info, i was out when you sent the reply, i went to the fish store.

funny, he almost said the samething you did. I got some freeze dried worms in these little square blocks.

he said to just hold them till the soak up the water and let it fall to the ground. then the frogs will have a fighting chance.
 
As you already know now, african dwarf frogs wont usually eat flakes/pellets. If you want a real nice treat for your frog, try to find a good healthy source of live blackworms (actual blackworms, not tubifex, although the freeze dried tubifex you got will be ok, but live ones usually arent). Your frog will appreciate a few of these worms a few times a week.
 
My frogs have never eaten anything but frog/tadpole pellets (I use HBH Frog and Tadpole Bites)... I don't know if mine are just weird, but they eat them while they float on the surface. That's actually the ONLY way they eat them, they do sink eventually (if they happen to miss one which is rare) - they just go all crazy grabbing at them on the surface. It may be the type/brand of pellet that you're using? I've also used freeze-dried bloodworms and they seem to like those as well.
 
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