This site has good info on your frogs: Introduction to African Dwarf Frogs, good luck. It will not harm frogs, just let the filter mature, do water changes as described, and it will clear up soon. Your water is probably cloudy because of dust in gravel/stones or you overfed the frogs and got a bacterial bloom. You should alternate replacing the filter pad with the sintered glass media. Also, do not replace all the media at the same time. Then you rinse the filter's media with tank water during weekly water change. Once your biological filter is "cycled" you can do 25% weekly water changes. Water changes take care of lowering nitrates. Then other bacteria will reduce nitrites to nitrates which is only bad to your frogs in high concentrations. Bacteria will reduce that to nitrites which are half as bad. In the meantime, please replace half the tank water daily with treated same temperature water to keep ammonia levels down.įrogs excrete ammonia which becomes toxic to them (they are living in the water they pee). Can use a product like Seachem Stability to reduce that to 2 weeks or so. Your tank needs to cycle (grow a beneficial bacteria colony in the filter) and that will take around 30 days. Majority of pet shop employees are there to sell products and they will do so, even without knowing the whole story about them. If you have a tank full of decorations or plants, a dead fish can be difficult to spot. A rotting fish stinks and can fill your room with a horrible odor. Do not use a pH adjuster in such a small tank! Daily changes in pH larger than 0.2 (scale is logarithmic) can cause a problem in the tank. I hate to break it to you, but that foul smell coming from your fish tank could be the remains of a much-loved fish.
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