Pond Season is Coming - Check Out These Tetra Pond Items!

Tetra has multiple pond products that are ideal for maintenance, nutrition, longevity, and overall health of your pond fish - now on sale at Uncle Bill's Pet Centers. The Tetra Pond Sticks are one of the most popular pond foods in our stores, and can be fed in Spring, Summer, and Autumn as long as water temperatures are 50F and above.
From Koi to Goldfish, your fish will receive a complete diet full of beneficial proteins, fiber, and essential vitamins. Pond Sticks are highly digestible, which promotes cleaner water due to minimizing waste, and they are designed to soften quickly for easier eating for toothless fish. Bonus: using higher quality fish food also helps keep your pond overall cleaner and clearer!

Some benefits that keep your fish in peak condition include:
*Vitamins - For growth, health, and metabolism. Contains stabilized Vitamin C;
*Protein - Contains amino acids for growth and maintenance;
*Fats - A concentrated energy source;
*Fiber - For healthy and efficient digestion.

 Looking for something season-specific that goes along with the feeding habits of your pond fish? The Spring and Fall Diet is wheat germ-based and great for transitioning fish in and out of winter! It works well even at low temperatures, thus reducing contamination, particularly in the Spring and Fall months (as long as water temperatures are above 39F.) Wheatgerm's exceptional digestibility at low temperatures is a very important component here since fish metabolism and the pond's ammonia reducing biological activity are greatly diminished in colder months. 

If Koi are your joy, try the Koi Growth Formula - a high-protein diet containing essential amino acids that help your younger fish grow. To be fed when water temperatures are 50F and above, this Tetra pond food for Koi is ideal for late Spring and early Summer when younger fish are growing most rapidly. For maintaining brilliant and vibrant yellow and orange Koi and Goldfish colors, you can even continue adult feeding with the Koi Vibrance Formula!

General Feeding Instructions per Tetra's site:  "Feed at least two to three times daily only as much food as your fish will consume within five minutes. When water temperature is below 50 degrees pond fish should only be fed Tetra Spring and Fall diet. Fish should not be fed when the temperature is below 39 degrees."

On sale now until 4/10/23 at 10% OFF, you can save up to $7.49 on these pond-specific fish foods at your local Uncle Bill's Pet Centers with an Extra Value Card! 

Gold African Clawed Frogs!

Also known as Xenopus laevis, Gold African Clawed Frogs are named for the three short claws on each hind foot. Xenopus means "strange foot" and laevis means "smooth".  

Gold African Clawed Frogs differ from African Dwarf frogs in that they are different in color and have webbing on just their hind feet instead of all four feet like the African Dwarf.  They also have their eyes on the top of their heads while the African Dwarf has eyes on the side of their heads. What's more, African Clawed Frogs have curved, flat noses and the African Dwarf frogs have pointed noses. 

 Easily adapted to many habitats and conditions, the Gold African Clawed Frog has a very unique genetic makeup.  They are tongue-less, tooth-less, and do not have ear drums but rather subcutaneous cartilaginous disks for hearing. Plus, even though they do not have vocal chords or a vocal sac, they can make mating calls using special laryngeal muscles - sounding much like ticking or cricket chirping noises. The lateral line (which can be seen as small marks down the sides of the frog) are used to pick up vibrations in water with low visibility. Each season, the Gold African Clawed Frog will shed its skin and then consume its own shed skin, and their skin produces a kind of antibiotic that helps heal wounds quickly too!  Due to their molecular biology, seven African Clawed Frogs even accompanied the first African American woman in space, Mae Jemison, on the Space Shuttle Endeavour on Spacelab mission "J" so scientists could study how zero gravity affected reproduction and development in 1992.

On land the Gold African Clawed Frog crawls instead of hopping, and if their natural water habitat dries up they can burrow in the mud and remain dormant for up to an entire year! African Clawed Frogs require some hiding spaces in their habitat, as well. However, special heating or lighting is not completely required - except to possibly maintain a regular day / night cycle. While they do not require land space, the water level should only reach about 12 inches deep so they may easily get to the surface for air.  A tight, secure lid on any African Clawed Frog enclosure is also a must as they are fantastic escape artists with strong enough legs to propel themselves out of the water. 

Please note: pet parents are encouraged to not release any African Clawed Frogs into the wild - as is with many other pets - as they are hardy to multiple conditions, will eat the young of other native frogs, and are voracious predators that will happily invade any space they can given the opportunity.