Frog...biowheels

[RubiconRider]

Hey there,
I wouldl like to add a frog to my tank.
But last time I had frogs (in a 10 gal) they ate all my small fish and outgrew the tank.
Is there a breed of frogs which are less agressive and stay small?
Considering the number of fish I have now, am I crazy to be even thinking of adding anything else.

(FYI - all the fish in the tank now get along for the most part...someitmes oneof the barbs pecks at the yellow algae eaters...One Gourami is always chsing the other too.)

Also, this is my first freshwater tanks with plants. From the research I've done, it seems the biowheels will casue more oxygenation (?) than I need...Should I thorw them away.?

Thanks in advance

 

[Lobo.]

no, dont worry about overoxygenation, as far as im aware, this can't happen, as oxygen and CO2 levels are independent. the biowheel will help with your bacterial colony too, and they are very beneficial

 

[hike13]

Hey there,

Is there a breed of frogs which are less agressive and stay small?

African Dwarf Frogs would probably fit that description. A 65gallon seems big for ADF's though and I'm not sure about compatibility with your current inhabitants. With that said I will pass the buck on to this great article.

ADF Article

 

[hurricanejedi]

You must have had an African Clawed Frog. They are often sold mislabeled as African Dwarf Frogs. Clawed frogs get HUGE and will eat everything in the tank. The Dwarf Frog gets to a couple inches, no bigger, and won't touch your other fish. They are almost completely blind so you have to make a point of feeding the worms to where they can smell them which may be the only problem with keeping them in a larger tank. I don't have any problems locating them in my 46G once they got adjusted to things and weren't hiding as much.

 

[Leopardess]

The fish in that tank are too aggressive to keep with ADFs. Also a 65g is too big for them unless you woulld be willing to spend a lot of time carefully feeding them. But, IMO, this is a moot point since they're not compatible.

You indeed did have a Clawed frog, not a Dwarf frog. They are two very different things. Clawed frogs must be kept in species only tanks (to be 100% safe) and get much bigger, much more aggressive.

Dwarf frogs are small, peaceful frogs that will be picked on by anything like tiger barbs, some plecos, larger gouramis, and could conceivably be eaten by a goldfish (which doesn't belong in a tropical tank anyway).

Please check out that article that Hike so kindly linked.

The biowheel is only an issue if you are injecting CO2 into the tank for the plants. If not, it doesn't matter.

 

[vic21]

Frog and biowheels

Is that kind of like the wheels that get put in hamster cages?????????????
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