The weekly menu for an African dwarf frog
African dwarf frogs are carnivores that feed on the bottom, and a good week rotates through small, soft, meaty foods rather than repeating one. Thawed frozen bloodworms are the usual anchor, with daphnia and brine shrimp giving lighter, more active meals, mysis shrimp adding a richer option, and small sinking frog pellets covering a convenient base. Across seven days, aim for bloodworms two or three times, the small crustaceans on two or three days, and pellets or mysis on the rest, so no single food's gaps become the frog's gaps. Thaw frozen foods in a little tank water and serve them at tank temperature — food offered still cold from the fridge is often refused, and rinsing thawed bloodworms in a fine strainer keeps their juices out of the water column.
How much, and how the feeding day runs
Feed once a day, or every other day for a settled adult in a well-kept tank, offering a small portion the frog can finish within a couple of minutes. These frogs eat slowly and by persistence rather than precision, so a modest amount delivered to the right place beats a generous amount scattered everywhere. Any food still sitting on the gravel after a short while is polluting the water, not feeding the frog, and should be lifted out before it decays. Young frogs still growing belong on the daily end of that rhythm; it is the settled adults who can stretch to every other day.
Getting food to a frog that hunts by smell and touch
An African dwarf frog's eyesight is poor, and in a community tank the fish will find broadcast food long before the frog does. The reliable method is target feeding: use long tweezers or a baster to place the food directly in front of the frog, or train it to a small feeding dish or a bare patch of gravel in one corner and always deliver there. Within days most frogs learn the spot and arrive when they sense the disturbance, which turns feeding from a lottery into a certainty. A gentle tap on the glass or a swirl of the baster at feeding time becomes a dinner bell the frog learns within a week or so, and a frog that comes to the corner expecting food is a frog you can inspect closely every day.
Variety without overfeeding
The temptation with a rotating menu is to offer a little of everything every day, which quietly becomes a lot of everything. Keep portions tied to what disappears, rotate the menu rather than stacking it, and give the frog's body condition the final say — a frog growing round across the belly needs smaller portions, while a thin frog needs the target feeding tightened up before it needs more food. Clean water matters alongside every meal, since uneaten protein foods foul a small tank quickly.
A written rotation is what stops two people in the same house feeding the frog twice in an evening, or a favourite food crowding out the rest of the menu. KinsLe's Care Teams hold the frog's weekly rotation as a shared duty, so each day's food is offered once, by whoever is on duty, and marked done.