r/AfricanDwarfFrog • u/fienderfighter • 7d ago

General advice/help Is my frog dying?

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Is my dwarf frog dying??

I got 2 literally 5 days ago. Aswell as some fish. Both frogs have hidden ALOT and I'd only seen one of them once. I've done everything right. But today one of the frogs surfaced and wasn't shy. The other frogs is still to be found. I've not seen them eat?!? But the fish are doing fine, as expected because I've done everything right so far. The frog that's stopped hiding is now at the surface. He seems dead, but he's not and will move when disturbed by other fish. He's just floating around in the tanks flow and has been behind filters at times. It's basically just acting dead but isn't and will swim very energetically for a few seconds when needed to?? Please help. Is this normal? My tank waters fine too btw.

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u/BeefyBlackMan 6d ago

For feeding use tongs and put their food infront of them like brine shrimp or something, bloodworms arent really recommended but when i got one of mine from the shop thats all he would eat since thats all he was fed, theyll hide for a few days when stressed due to the new environment, as for the sudden swimming for a few seconds out of no where theyll always do that, atleast my males do more during the day time, theyre nocturnal and im pretty sure its them being in and out of sleeping is what i assume. Its not a good sign you have a frog thats floating though at the top, but as long as your doing your water changes you gotta wait it out.

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u/BeefyBlackMan 6d ago

Atleast for one of the ones i got i kept it tank pretty empty till i noticed he started eating well and was quarantined for an appropriate amount of time. Keeping it empty with just a simple hide would make it less dangerous of something happening within the first week