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While browsing the educational toys department I discovered a kit called the planet frog habitat. You send in for captive bred leopard frog tadpoles. I was wondering if it's a good idea to purchase this. I would be moving them almost immediatley to a 20 gallon half land and half water setup.
Thanks for all your help.

Sure. You should buy it. It is a cool little place to raise tads.

If you are only using it to observe the tadpole grow then it is fine. I would definitely move it to a much larger enclosure as soon as it morphed. Those things are just so small. You may be better off going someplace that sells feeder fish and see if they have any tads that came in with a shipment. It'll be cheaper and you could just set up your 20 with the 1/2 and 1/2 now with just a little more water on the one side (about 3 or 4 inches deep)
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Heather

I would just search around at local pet shops (good ones) and see if anyone has tadpoles for sale. There are advantages and disadvantages to this, since you should avoid buying a bullfrog tadpole unless you want to have a frog in a very large 100gallon tank or indoor pond. If no small tadpoles can be found at any shops, you could always go and catch one (just one, maybe two) in the wild. I think you would end up paying too much by buying the tank and mailing out for one.
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*~Ginevive~*

A disadvantage to getting them frome the wild is that unless you know that the leopard frog is the only frog in that pond you still mite end up with a bull frog because it is extremely difficult to tell the difference. Here is a link that could help the identification.
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