Critterstruck
12-09-2011, 01:08 AM
I'm excited! I had been planning on getting a couple when my 3 Gallon was ready (pH is 7.6, which seems rather extreme, and water is 60F...), but I ended up getting my choice for free from a science teacher.
I assume they must have come from Carolina Biological Supply, so I am rather uncertain about the frog's health, as she has probably had a stressful week, and she is currently confined to a specimen container in my 10 Gallon (which is kept at 76F-79F). I've been keeping her water clean, and she seems to be eating and moving about okay. I was thinking I might keep her there for a week or two, and just change the water daily with R/O (well), so I can be sure she's okay, before letting her go in the 10.
She kinda freaks me out with the floating so-called "Zen pose" thing. I understand when they're just sitting there upright, suspended, but no one mentions ADFs suddenly falling over on their backs and lying motionless with their legs sticking out all funny, or suddenly stopping and drifting to the surface. I don't know if she's sick, knocking herself out, or just behaving normally. She'll be moving around, and then she'll run into a surface and just stop - or act like she can't reach the water's surface (which is quite low, now), and then ether sink or float and not move.
I've read in several places people talking about their frogs drifting at the surface (not bloated) and then being dead the next day, which seems to have maybe been the case for one of the other frogs she was housed with. No one seems to have an answer for what causes it. The best advice I have seen is to keep the water clean, so that is what I'm doing.
I assume they must have come from Carolina Biological Supply, so I am rather uncertain about the frog's health, as she has probably had a stressful week, and she is currently confined to a specimen container in my 10 Gallon (which is kept at 76F-79F). I've been keeping her water clean, and she seems to be eating and moving about okay. I was thinking I might keep her there for a week or two, and just change the water daily with R/O (well), so I can be sure she's okay, before letting her go in the 10.
She kinda freaks me out with the floating so-called "Zen pose" thing. I understand when they're just sitting there upright, suspended, but no one mentions ADFs suddenly falling over on their backs and lying motionless with their legs sticking out all funny, or suddenly stopping and drifting to the surface. I don't know if she's sick, knocking herself out, or just behaving normally. She'll be moving around, and then she'll run into a surface and just stop - or act like she can't reach the water's surface (which is quite low, now), and then ether sink or float and not move.
I've read in several places people talking about their frogs drifting at the surface (not bloated) and then being dead the next day, which seems to have maybe been the case for one of the other frogs she was housed with. No one seems to have an answer for what causes it. The best advice I have seen is to keep the water clean, so that is what I'm doing.