African Dwarf Frog floating on top of tank :(

Is it possible that the frog aquired some sort of parasite from their
food? I have ADFs keeping my beta company and I'm curious to know if
that might be the cause.

(Sarah) wrote in message om...
Is it possible that the frog aquired some sort of parasite from their
food? I have ADFs keeping my beta company and I'm curious to know if
that might be the cause.

Looks like my post was lost, so if this ends up being a repeat, please
ignore. Poor Floaty died. If there were parasites they came from the
store as he became ill so quickly after purchase. I use only
commercial food so I hope that it is clean. I do think that the
freeze dried blood worms )as opposed to the frozen) might have caused
some gas bubbles in the other frogs (one in particular would eat a few
freeze dried worms and then almost immediately pop to the top and
float for an hour or two) but that problem was solved by soaking the
worms before feeding, feeding less often and using the frozen food
more often.

Thanks for the help from everyone.

"asginpg" wrote in message
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(Sarah) wrote in message
om...
Is it possible that the frog aquired some sort of
parasite from their
food? I have ADFs keeping my beta company and I'm
curious to know if
that might be the cause.

Looks like my post was lost, so if this ends up being a
repeat, please
ignore. Poor Floaty died. If there were parasites they
came from the
store as he became ill so quickly after purchase. I use
only
commercial food so I hope that it is clean. I do think
that the
freeze dried blood worms )as opposed to the frozen) might
have caused
some gas bubbles in the other frogs (one in particular
would eat a few
freeze dried worms and then almost immediately pop to the
top and
float for an hour or two) but that problem was solved by
soaking the
worms before feeding, feeding less often and using the
frozen food
more often.

Thanks for the help from everyone.

Sorry to hear your ADF died. It probably came to you sick,
as you say, and then couldn't handle the freeze-dried food.
I fed my first frog that diet and it didn't last long. My
current two seem quite healthy on frozen foods, HBH frog
bites & whatever they can wrestle from the fish.

Try again. ADF are great to watch.

Gail

Hello, Hope it is ok if I join in on this thread .
I have lost a few ADF frogs that way and never figured out what the
cause was. I find that they do well on freeze dried tubifex worms,
TetraMin Tropical tablets and a treat of the freeze dried blood worms.
They will also eat some algae wafers as well. My frogs like to float
and it seems to be normal behavior as well as going around the tank
along the bottom..

Sorry about the loss of that frog. Hard to treat them when something is
wrong.

Subject: African Dwarf Frog floating on top of tank
From: (Dulcie)
Date: 11/23/2003 5:56 PM Central Standard Time
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Hello, Hope it is ok if I join in on this thread .
I have lost a few ADF frogs that way and never figured out what the
cause was. I find that they do well on freeze dried tubifex worms,
TetraMin Tropical tablets and a treat of the freeze dried blood worms.
They will also eat some algae wafers as well. My frogs like to float
and it seems to be normal behavior as well as going around the tank
along the bottom..

Sorry about the loss of that frog. Hard to treat them when something is
wrong.


Try switching to frozen Bloodworms.
They jump up and give you a great big SMOOCHY!

[quote=asginpg;22999]"RedForeman ©®" wrote in message ...[color=blue][i]
maybe he's got bloat? and maybe he's inhaled an air bubble??

floating on the top is usually ok. the upside down thing happened to me when mine wasn't eating. Is he really skinny? the vet told me to do. Warm up the tank, to about 82-84 degrees, my frog looked better, soon after I did this. then get some mashed baby food, chicken or beef, some sort of meat, and force feed him. Luckily I got a dropper and I didn't have to forche his mouth open, I was nervous about that cuz he's so little, but I squirted it in his face and he started eating. At first he barley moved his mouth, but through the day he got more active. I offered him food about every 30 minutes. If you do have to touch your frog do it sparingly and w/ gloves the oil in our skin can hurt their skin. Make sure not to let the chicken go bad and you'll have to clean the tank to get the chicken debris out, and take them to a vet if you can in case they have a parasite or something, but this should help your frog. it helped mine A LOT! he looks so much better than yesterday when I found him, thank God :-)