Feeder frogs

[Arowanablubber]

How do you guys feel about feeder frogs? If you buy from a lfs and you quarantine them for a few days and gut load them what are the chances a parasite gets passed onto your fish?

 

[krichardson]

Sounds unnecessarily pricey and risky as the frogs could pass something on to your fish,especially if they were poorly kept.
I'm aware that some fish do eat frogs on occasion in the wild but but I see no reason to buy them as feeders.

 

[tlindsey]

How do you guys feel about feeder frogs? If you buy from a lfs and you quarantine them for a few days and gut load them what are the chances a parasite gets passed onto your fish?

The only frogs I see sold in most lfs in my area are African Clawed Frogs and they are never in the best shape. If the frogs were infected then it would pass onto your fish.

 

[krichardson]

The only frogs I see sold in most lfs in my area are African Clawed Frogs and they are never in the best shape. If the frogs were infected then it would pass onto your fish.

Yep....some places do carry bullfrog tadpoles and I have seen live frogs sold in Asian supermarkets.They were not well kept,pretty much piled up in platsic trash cans waiting to die.

 

[Arowanablubber]

The only frogs I see sold in most lfs in my area are African Clawed Frogs and they are never in the best shape. If the frogs were infected then it would pass onto your fish.

No these aren’t African clawed frogs, there bull frogs I think. They look like a standard frog found in most ponds

 

[islandguy11]

Quite a few Singaporean Asian Arowana keepers feed young bullfrogs to their fish, believing these to be the best way to both beef up an Arowana and bring out their colors, though I doubt most if any would feed them exclusively.

Personally I wouldn't feed BF (or in fact any similar feeder/live foods) to my fish for the reasons previous posters have stated, just not worth the risk.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

I've read that frogs and toads carry a risk of transference of tapeworms, for instance.

 

[cockroach]

I fed frogs for years to my cichla, silver aro and dats. The frogs in Taiwan are bred to be live foods. I would feed them gut loaded insects, injected with vitamins, just after the frogs ate the bugs, they were dropped into the tanks.

Bear in mind they are a treat, not a staple. But if you have your aro on pellets and other prepared food, there really is no need to feed live.

 

[krichardson]

Roach,what type of frogs were they, do you know the species?....just curious.

 

[Arowanablubber]

Thanks for all the feedback, I wouldn't use the frogs as his staple diet but as a treat every once in a while. I feel like a big predatory fish like the aro should get a chance to hunt his food not just eat pellets off the top. His current staple is MP but I tossed in a few BF last night and he loved it but definitely not worth him getting some sort of parasite.