Grow-A-Frog Kit
by Three Rivers Mail Order Corporation
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Mail Order CorporationToys and Games Reviews of Grow-A-Frog Kit
Customer Review: NOT a toy!
Summary: 1 Stars
BEWARE!
These frogs grow very large -- bigger than my palm -- and they live for YEARS AND YEARS. (We know one that is confirmed as eight years old, and an internet search on "African Clawed Frogs" shows some people claim to have twenty-plus years...)
If you buy this kit you will need additional space: There is NO WAY you will keep it in the tiny box they give you with this kit. That will become obvious right away.
The frogs (we have two) are very sweet. They play with each other and even sing. We know someone else with just one, and it's very different -- it just sits, even when we put it with ours. It seems however they grow up (with others or alone) is how they stay.
But even for one you will end up getting a full-sized aquarium at the very least. For full-grown adults, even a ten-gallon tank is too small for them to actually swim. Also, they are known to attack and eat anything else in the tank, including fish and even snails. You will end up with a tank of frogs and only frogs. Because of their reputation for escaping from tanks (and drying up and dying before they are discovered), you'll also need a good cover for your tank. They eat a lot, which means a lot of material passes through the frogs, which means you'll have to have a pretty good filter and a member of your household to clean the tank -- we clean ours EVERY WEEK.
You will NOT be able to release them into the wild, either. Even owning African Clawed Frogs is illegal in many states, and some people have had their frogs confiscated by state authorities because of the potential for ecological damage (like eating everything in sight and laying thousands of eggs). As far as we know, releasing them is illegal everywhere.
These kits should not be sold as toys! They are PETS, and you will either spend WAY more than the value of the kit for a suitable habitat, or torture the poor creature for years and years with inadequate space.
Buy with caution. You are not getting a short-term experiment, but rather a baseball-sized frog and a big commitment.
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