Keeping Frog Legs Out of the Aquarium Filter

Posted by Shelley on Mar 26, 2008 • (0)

Last month, I had to rescue Frogalina, the Dwarf African Frog living in our aquarium, from the intake tube on the aquarium 3 times. Twice she had her legs caught in the tube, and finding that frog with its legs stuck in the filter tube was distressing because the poor thing was flailing about, trying to get free.

Having a somewhat twisted sense of humor, I chuckled to myself during the third rescue when I found Frogalina with her belly and chest stuck to the intake tube like a peel-off window decal. How that frog didn’t get striped hickies on her belly from the filter suction is mystery to me.

The solution? I found the suggestion to secure a piece of panty hose to the intake tube at AllAboutFrogs.org. I found a pair of hose still in then packaging that even matched the pale gray color of the filter tube and I cut the hose a few inches up from the toe, rinsed well, and then secured the hose to the intake tube with a rubber band (which was no where near the same color as the intake valve and hose, darn it).

This kept Frogalina safe for about a month, and only minor amounts of goop accumulated on the hose, which I rinsed off with weekly 10% water changes.

After a month of eating fish food, shrimp pellets, reptile pellets and blood worms, Frogalina grew a bit. Being a Dwarf Frog, Frogalina is still little, but is now strong enough to avoid getting sucked into the tube.

Tags: aquarium, dwarf African frog

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