Aquarium frogs are quite rare and represent exotic in a certain sense for the amateur aquarist. Not all species of frogs feel comfortable in the aquarium - most need small floating islands, on which they could crawl out from time to time.
The most common choice for keeping in a home aquarium is the clawed frog. She in the albino version has a light yellow or white color. A sexually mature clawed frog becomes one year old, and if the conditions of keeping are good, it can live up to fifteen years.
Spur aquarium frogs are picky enough. When choosing a volume for an aquarium, one must take into account that in some cases a frog can grow up to 16 cm, but for small individuals - one or two - a simple five-liter jar is enough.
What to feed the frog
In nature, the white frog lives in slowly flowing or standing lakes, ponds, swamps. She is able to move through the soil, for example, in search of a new place to live instead of the old dry one. But she cannot be without water for a long time and she cannot eat.
Aquarium frogs are predators by nature, and should not be kept together with fry or small fish, guppies, neons. In the end, white frogs eat them, so only large and agile individuals can be kept in the same water space with them. Feeding the frog with fish will be somewhat wasteful, and if there are only small individuals in the aquarium, it is better to put it in a separate aquarium and serve animal food, bloodworms, coretra, daphnia, and small earthworms.
It is not recommended to feed a white frog with a tubule - it can get food poisoning. As a substitute for the usual food, you can serve her lean meat in the form of strips or dry food, that is, dried daphnia.
White frogs love to eat, and in this process they need to be limited. Poor, that is, little, eat only the elderly and old individuals. An adult frog with a good appetite should be fed twice a week, otherwise it will eat into obesity. A young white frog should be fed more often during the period of intensive growth.
How does a frog eat?
The white frog has depressions on its sides with tiny hairs that respond to the current created by the water around the body. Thanks to the impulses, you can navigate even in a fast current - the hydrodynamic waves caused by aquatic inhabitants are quickly captured by the white frog. She has an excellent sense of smell: a couple of minutes after the food enters the water, they begin to rush around the reservoir in search of food.
Large pieces of food, such as bloodworms or earthworms, are stuffed by frogs into their mouths, while holding the worm with their fingers, small pieces are simply swallowed.
