Peppered Cory Cats and African Dwarf Frog

TroutAngler86 · Post by **TroutAngler86** » 31 Jan 2007, 22:21

I have 3 Peppered Cory Cats in a mini-bow 5 tank. Will an African Dwarf Frog be okay with these?

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn · Post by **PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn** » 31 Jan 2007, 23:59

it may it may not, its a case of are you lucky or not. I was and mine survived for over a year and only lost it due to it finding an escape route. i will paste a bit of typing i did a while back, based on an article in the PFK magazine (because i'm lazy)

their easy to care for. they require about a gallon apiece and it fairly shallow (ie 6-8", mine was in a 10" deep aquarium, but they prefer it shallower than i gave it) nuetral pH and about 24c/78f they work best with low turnover filters (as their not that great swimmers) so air powered box or sponge filters are good for them.
due to their poor sight (and possibly for dietry reasons) they sometimes swallon the substrate at the sme time as food, so silica sand works best as it avoids blockages they like some plants (ie.java moss and horwart(if yusing hornwart leave too float as they'll perch in it) 25% weekly waterchanges as their messy (i did 50% weekly due to the stocking levels i had) and will do better on live foods, sometimes prepared food can cause them too bloat and they'll float around the surface (not happened to me, mine coped fine with the prepared foods, but the auther of an article where i got the majority of my info (he has 20 tanks with various varieties of frogs and their spawn) had it happen to him)

unfortunatly they not very good at getting their food, so the corys may get the food before the frog and the frog starves to death. i fed mine indervidually by placing pellets right infront of him, and half the time he'd miss them and go elsewhere and not allways eat. but saying that mine have been in with rams, pencilfish, peppered corys some geos (who were still small) swordtails.

after i read the article from which i learnt a fair bit i was planning a sp tank for the frog, but alas that was when he made his escape bid.

TroutAngler86 · Post by **TroutAngler86** » 01 Feb 2007, 02:54

Thanks for the info and help.

TroutAngler86 · Post by **TroutAngler86** » 01 Feb 2007, 14:01

One more question. Could I feed them spirulina flakes and frozen bloodworms for there whole diet?

PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn · Post by **PsYcHoTiC_MaDmAn** » 02 Feb 2007, 13:47

personally i wouldnt. I'd feed a decent processed food (such as New Life Spectrum, which was one of the foods my frog ate, he also ate JMC catfish pellets) and treat occasionly with bloodworm,

one thing to note, i used to feed my malawis a spiralina and shrimp flake and the spiralina would make the water green. not as in algea but it would give the water a green tint. the moment i went over feeding NLS to my fish it went away. nowdays ALL i feed ALL my fish with is NLS cichlid formula though occasionly i hand feed the Synodontis some of the JMC tablets (because their bigger and i can hold them in my hand that way.)