Skin And Bones Froggie!

[sammy86]

I had 1 ADF in my tank, hes a fat little blighter with lots of character
so today i went to the store and bought two more, at the time i didnt see anything wrong

but when i got home, one of them is skin and bones! hes a baby, the same size as the other, who is fine, hes active and alert and is swimming around just fine, and when iput some pellets in he started munching away

there was alot of ADFs together, was he not getting any food at the store? why is he so skinny?
will he be ok?
all the fish with him are little and peaceful so he should be ok, i dont want to loose him!

he has no other ill symptoms

 

[WILDER]

Bless him, sounds like he could be a runt never got to the food the others pushed him out.
Here a link try and get him on a varied diet.
http/allaboutfrogs.org/info/mypets/dwarfs.html

 

[sammy86]

thanks for that my ADF is fed up on crumbling bloodworm pellets, live bloodworm, and any flakes that sink to the bottom

the poor little skinny frog has been munching away at the pellets and is now covered in crumbs! i hope he does ok!

 

[WILDER]

Or bless him, he sounds really hungry bless him, got a pic, he sounds cute.

 

[sammy86]

sorry for the late reply - ive only just got a pic of him (heavily planted tank)

here is frogbert my 1st (healthy) frog

and.. skinny mc bones - in comparison...

as you can see hes pretty starving! though hes happily gobbling food, and the other frogs are fine and social with him - he seems happy (hes currently peeping at me out of a cave ^-^)

i really hope i saved him in time!

 

[WILDER]

Or bless him there both cute, get some bloodworms down him that will fetch him on in leaps and bounds.

 

[sammy86]

sure will XD

 

[Tsi_User]

He's real skinny, but if you feed him frequently I'm sure you'll see his little belly grow.

What size tank are the ADFs in?

 

[sammy86]

He's real skinny, but if you feed him frequently I'm sure you'll see his little belly grow.

What size tank are the ADFs in?

A 12 uk gallon

 

[sammy86]

i dont think he made it i havnt seen him atall for over a week

 

[WILDER]

Or bless him, that funny was thinking of him last night and today was going to ask how he was doing.
You will have to search the tank for him check filter and remove plants and ornaments if you can.

 

[sammy86]

i cleaned the filter and did a tank search - the only thing i can think of is that hes under the wood somwhere i even took the backing off my tank to see down there, but no avail)

its really sad, even my mums friends have asked about 'Skinny Mcbones'

 

[WILDER]

Bless him, i would pick the wood up then or is it a very large peice of wood, to take a look.