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459 of 477 persons found the following review helpful.
Be prepared for a commitment…
By Geneva Gamiani
My husband purchased the Grow-a-Frog kit for our daughter when she was three. It amused her briefly, taught her a little something, and provided her a new pet, so life was good.
That was nine years ago. Beware. When your tadpole grows into a frog, you will need to send away to the company for the frog kit, which comprises of a more prominent environs and a dissimilar type of food. We also received a “bonus” frog in the mail with our order, which we did not ask for. Unfortunately, this frog was much more spectacular than the one we had raised, and it ate our old friend one night while we were sleeping. This was likewise a good learning experience for our daughter, I suppose, but not for “Lily…”
Our bonus frog is still alive and going strong, all these years later. Before you consider buying this “toy,” please think when it comes to the commitment involved to the living creature(s) you will be bringing into your home. Do galore research. These are African Clawed Frogs, and you may find a great deal of selective information when it comes to them on the Internet, such as life span (up to 30 years), and habitat needs. These are aquatic frogs, which means they may never live outside of a water-filled tank, making them more similar to fish than to the frogs you may find in your backyard. The little plastic cubes provided by the company are not almost big sufficient to comfortably house one of these animals, let alone two. Our frog now lives in a five-gallon fishtank, which still seems a bit little for him.
One thing you may want to consider before purchasing this item is the ethical significances involved. The company breeds frogs and sends them out to clients indiscriminantly, without ever knowing or seemingly caring if the animals will be adequately cared for. These frogs will NOT survive if you let them go in the wild, so please take that into account. Your child may tire of his new pet in a month, but you will still need to care for the animal for a great deal of years.
Although this product does have a heap of instructional value, I believe your child may adequately learn the same lessons from a book, video, or trip to a local pond. If you’re ready to adopt a new family member, however, this may be the perfective “toy” for you.
84 of 87 people found the following review helpful.
Fun learning experience
By C. S. Funk
It’s great to find something that is this fun and instructional for the whole family. My daughter, who is five, learned a lot from seeing the frog’s metamorphosis. Please realize that the tadpoles can not be sent when the weather is too cold or too warm. I read reviews on another internet site where people complained regarding this. We got our tadpole and it came in a foam box with a plastic bag in the center containing the tadpole in water. It was clear and had little whiskers. It likewise had the front appendages already. When you read the book you realize this is a particular frog formulated in a lab and not your intermediate pond frog/tadpole so it is supposed to look like this. It will always stay in water not similar to regular frogs. You may even see the heart beat and feed digestion since the tadpole is clear in color which is in truth neat. It turns darker as it starts to go through metamorphosis. Read the book totally as soon as you open the box before you do anything else. It’s easy to miss little things that will be indispensable with the water. The book is written to be agreeably diverting which it is, but when you are a busy parent it may become annoying. I wish it came with a bullet list with just the need-to-knows for parents.
When we got our stage two habitat (which you will have to get for when the frog completes metaboli process or so they say) it came with a free froglet. They say they do this because frogs are such social animals. They warn you nevertheless to go through this staging procedure before you put them together so they become employed to one another. Basically, you put them in distinguished containers next to each other for 48 hours and keep them well fed. You will have to read through the cutesy new booklet too as things are a little dissimilar with the water once they are froglets. We opted to compensate extra and get the “rare white froglet” as our second. It was in truth orange, but it’s still cool to have the two dissimilar colors. We were worried when we primary got the kit because there was a leak in the new frog’s bag from poor packaging and it was just when it comes to out of water. It looked dead, but I put it temporarily into a cup with spring water until I could read the book and figure out what to do. It lived and is fine even altho in the end you are supposed to put them in tap water purified with their crystals they send at this stage (spring water is only for the tadpole stage except initially when you clean the little granules in the stage 2 tank). At firstborn I thought the whole two frog thing was just a way to make more cash on frog food, but I do think they get enjoyment from each other now that they are employed to one another. They say it is VERY rare to have them mate, but I’m marveling regarding ours. They spend an astounding lot of time “socializing” on top of one another. I’ll post again if we get any new very rare tadpoles.
47 of 48 people found the following review helpful.
Irresponsible Company
By Sharon
I purchased this frog for my son a year ago thinking it would be a fun little pet to keep in a one gallon tank and for him to hold and play with for the summer. The product description did not one thing to prepare me for the real dedication we were taking on.
This frog is aquatic and will require at least a ten-gallon aquarium, twenty-gallons would be better. It grows rather huge (ours is nine inches head to toe and seems to be still growing). The life span of these frogs is regarding 25 years. When adult, the frog requires live feed which means weekly trip to the pet store for minnows that have to be kept in a discerned aquarium (i.e. more live animals to feed, another filter to change, tank to be cleaned etc.) These pets cannot have any other littler creatures in the tank lest they be gobbled up by the frogs, though they do apparently get enjoyment from the company of other same-sized clawed frogs. The frogs have sharp claws and can not be handled by you or your children. If we even dip our finger tips in the water our frog will attack.
All this being said, we do LOVE our frog. But because I love animals it pains me that there are likely a lot of frogs being shipped out to homes that don’t have the means, facilities, or life style to accomodate these pets. I think it’s exceedingly irresponsible of this company not to present this very pertinent selective information for the unsuspecting buyer to read in the product description. Shame on them!
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