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Hello all. I'm new here, and was just wondering if anyone could please help me identify the kind of tadpole I have.

I recently bought a little habitat for a tadpolee/frog, and instead of ordering the tadpole and possibly waiting up to three months and the tadpole dying in shipment, I opted to go to a petstore. The habitat is specialized for Leopard frogs.

The first one I went to, the man said he didn't know what tadpoles were what. I thought this was a bit odd, and went to another one. The second one said the same thing. I still thought it was a bit strange, but I couldn't go to any other petstore, since the next closest one was roughly an hour away. I went ahead and bought possibly either a bullfrog tadpole, or leopard tadpole. I'm leaning more towards the bullfrog now that I look at it more and more, and if that's the case, it can't stay in the habitat after it transforms, since it could possibly be double the size of the leopard. Here are two pictures of it:

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I am not that great of an expert so i cant tell you what it is just by looking at the tadpole but usually.... but not all the time.... anytime you see a tadpole in a petstore, it is a bullfrog. There are other intances though where it could in fact be something else. i do not believe it is a leopard frog though.... Jon
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1.1.1 breeding pair blue tongue skinks w/ juv. offspring
1.0.0 Juv. Albino Bullfrog
0.0.2 Giant Pixie Frog (one juv. and one adult)
1.1.0 Clawed frogs
1.1.0 Albino Clawed frogs
0.0.1 Superlight juv Sulcatta
0.0.2 Fly river turtles
0.0.2 Savannah Monitors (one pastel)
0.2.0 juv pastel Columbian boas
1.1.0 monster pink pastel columbian boas
1.2.0 Hypo Hog boas
1.0.0 Hypo boa
1.1.0 Hypo boa babies, Poss. DH sunglow
0.2.0 Hypo poss. DH sunglow
1.0.0 Coral albino boa (my baby)
and
1.2.0 Pomeranians (the wifes babies)

thats definitely a bullfrog tad, i had one that looked just like it. soon you will need to move it to a larger tank, it should have at least 5 gallons of water. i've raised soooooooo many tadpoles and the easiesy way to do it is get a 10 gallon, put gravel in, buy a ton of aquatic plants, get a lid, put a piece of driftwood and feed it fishfood. when fullgrown i don't recommend anything less than a 30 gallon, breeder tanks are better. u will also need something that has UVB/UVA light rays, otherwise it will develop something called matabolic bone disease(MBD) where their bones become deformed. u will need a vitiman/calcium supplement as well. PLEASE contact me if you have any more questions. here's my albino one

Had a pair that look very similar to yours and they turned out to be bullfrogs. They got huge real quick and I ended up give them to a retired man with a backyard pond.