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i'm at the pet store picking up some stuff, my daughter and wife
see a tad pole, "ahhhhh how cute" & so on and so on ,ask the lady
who knows nothing about the tadpole "it's aquatic" it will live it's whole life in a tank--blah blah blah------------------
i should have know better - i started noticeing the "tail" shrinking -then the frog is standing on top of the filter in the tank! so here i am completely unprepared ,with a spotted bull frog.......
question:
they eat crickets and grasshoppers right?
thanks,
Dallas

yes bull frogs eat crickets. and also you will ned a fairley big tank for it whan it becomes full grown like aroung 100 gallons.

Good Luck

I read from this book published by Barron's and written by Barlett and Barlett, who are supposed to be one of the leading experts on this subject, and it saids, a minimum for an adult is 50 gal. Someone on here saids that they excrete a lot of waste into the water because they eat a lot, and you should clean the tank and change the water often like once a week without a filtering system. I think the main reason for some people frog deficating so much is that theirs are fed too often. I think you only need to feed it once a week. They are cold blooded; they don't need to eat like us and dogs and cats. Despite this, They will eat everyday due to a survival mechanism; it's an insecurity of feast and famine, and they will gorge themselves if the opportunities arrise, as a result. Plus, I read somewhere that if it's actually way to big, although larger than 50 gallon is probably better, the frog can feel insecure. Frogs are more like sit and wait predators, but they will crept up toward the preys ( especially bullfrogs from far away ) from quite a distance if they spot them.

Some folks feed their frogs grasshoppers. I'm assuming because they're so readily available. Personally, I think they're a little tough for them to digest because I used to feed them to my frogs and toads long ago but stopped when I would see basically the whole grasshopper undigested in their stool. When you think about it, they are hard, tough little buggers. I suppose a larger frog wouldn't have a problem but a froglet (ranidae) might be better off with crickets, moths, grubs, small earthworms, and a guppy or two every now and then. Variety will keep your frog happy and healthy. By the way... if you come across a 100 gallon aquarium, use it for a marine life tank. I think 100 gallons for a frog is a little obsessive.

I hate to play the person who corrects, but once again, that's a misquote. The book, which I'm looking at as I write this, says "A pair we kept lived for many years in a strongly filtered 50-gallon (200 L) aquarium. And that's for American bullfrogs.

hey, thanks folks needed the info, i'm a snake guy but quickly
falling for the frog, they are interesting little creatures!!
i'll be back!
thanks again!
Dallas