African clawed frogs

[Kohm]

Hi everyone, I'm already on the brink of getting myself a couple of albino Xenopus laevis. They seem to be more or less quite hardy and easy animals. I have some questions about, wondering if anyone could help me.

How deep should I keep the water? Since they are quite aquatic, I suppose they do take to deep water at times, but do they need some shallows that they can lie in or something?

How big a tank should I have for 2 adult frogs? Different sources seem to give different dimensions of their size, I can't decide.

Thanks a lot!
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[herpkingdom]

Do you realize that adult African Clawed frog get up to 8 inches long? I have seen one female that reached 10 inches.

I had 3 adults years ago, and kept them in a 100 gal. aquarium set up about 3/4 full of water with rocks and logs built up to provide a shallow area theat made up about 1/3 of the tank.
The other 2/3's of the tank were about 20 inches deep in water.

Are you going to get babies and raise them? If os, then a small aquarium is ok, and set it up like I said above. These are strictly aquatic frogs and do not need a land area.

Here is a link to some more general care for these frogs:

African Clawed Forg Care

Good Luck!
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