African dwarf frogs....concered if they are getting enough to eat

Question
Hi, I was wondering if you could help me...I have a 10 gal tank with 4 danios, 2 sunburst platys, 1 silver tetra, 2 mickey mouse platys, and 2 african dwarf frogs...my question is what can i feed my dwarf frogs to make sure they are getting enough to eat, they seem to be OK but I hardly ever see them eat....I feed my fish the tropical fish food and the frogs,I sprinkle in some tad pole food, which the danios love by the way...the petstore i go to told me they are scavengers and will find the food. I'm just concerened they are not getting enough to eat. i had 4 at one time and 3 died, the one who survived seems to be doing fine, so I got another one....its seems fine too, just concerened because I dont want to lose another frog.

Answer
Hi Talanda,
The best way to feed dwarf frogs is by using a (brandnew) eye dropper to suction their food up into and then literally hand-feeding them from it. Dwarf frogs do much better on frozen worms, brine shrimp and similar foods. They often will not go for dry type fish foods and they may even starve if left to scavenge for whatever. Please try to get them some frozen or freeze dried foods to feed them. Reconstitute freeze dried foods in a cup of tank water and then either pour of directly handfeed the frogs with an eyedropper. Putting the food directly in front of their noses if you can. It may also help to distract the fish with some food on one end of the tank while you do this.

You can read more about dwarf frogs and their care here:
http://aquaticfrogs.tripod.com/id13.html

Best of luck!
Karen~