How to Feed Your Albino Clawed Frog

African clawed frogs, also known as albino clawed frogs, eat a wide variety of food. For optimum health, the diet for baby frogs should consist mainly of pellet food that is developed for frogs. They also can be fed small amounts of live and freeze-dried food, but the diet should primarily consist of the frog pellets to ensure proper nutrition until the frog is at least a year old. Once an adult, the frog can be feed a variety of pellet, live and freeze-dried foods. Albino clawed frogs will eat when food is dropped in the tank and can be trained to eat out of your hand or a turkey baster.

Things You'll Need

  • Specially formulated frog pellet food
  • Live guppies
  • Freeze-dried gammrus, krill, tubifex worms and bloodworms
  • Frozen blood/glass worms, brine shrimp, krill and silversides
  • Live crickets, earthworms and nightcrawlers
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Instructions

    • 1

      Feed frogs specially formulated frog pellets rather than fish food. Frogs have different nutritional requirements than fish. Baby frogs, until they are 1 year old or older, require a diet mainly consisting of special frog pellets.

    • 2

      Throw floating pellets or live food into the tank. Frogs will smell the food and swim rapidly to it in a feeding frenzy.

    • 3

      Remove any uneaten food. Let frogs eat as much as they like, and then remove any remaining food when they quit eating. This will keep the tank clean.

    • 4

      Add live, freeze-dried and frozen foods to the frog's diet when it reaches maturity.

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      Feed baby frogs pellets daily. Adult frogs can be offered a variety of foods, including pellets every two to three days.

    • 6

      Hand-feed your frogs. Place a piece of food between your fingers and chase the frog around the tank until it takes the food. Eventually they will associate your hand with food and immediately swim to it to be fed. Frogs may nip at your fingers, hand or wrist, but they have no teeth so it won't hurt.

    • 7

      Suck food into a turkey baster and use it to feed the frogs. This feeding method is useful with baby froglets. Slowly squirt the food out of the baster in front of the frogs. You can play with the frogs by making them chase the baster around the tank.