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Incredible but true Grow a Frog. Educational but fun. Great first pet. Grow a Frog kit comes with growth food, aquarium, pet handbook, and certificate to receive your live tadpole by mail. Great gift or just for fun! Wildlife Commissioners will not allow tadpoles from Grow a Frog to enter in: AZ, CA, HI, MT, NV, OR, UT, and WA. If you live in these states, please do not order the product.
Watching a creature grow from birth to maturity is a special science lesson that most urban children seldom experience. The process of metamorphosis is especially fascinating. The Grow A Frog kit comes with a see-through 3.5-by-4.5-inch plastic aquarium, a small bag of tadpole food and another of nutri-rocks, a piece of fake seaweed, and a detailed handbook with directions. Send in the mail-ready card and within a few weeks your child will receive a special tadpole grown in a Florida lab. (Many guarantees are put forth in the directions about the safe, humane mailing process.) The translucent skin of the tadpoles allows children to see the inner organs. Adult frogs have an average lifespan of five years but the record is 15 years. These special frogs live full-time in fresh water. Fresh spring water is required in the tadpole stage. --Lair Showalter, mother and elementary school teacher

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great for school-age kids
Comment: My 7 year-old son received this as a gift and we all loved it. In fact, we bought a second one for our younger son. We recently gave this to one of his friends because he loved our frogs when he came over to our house. And, even though this is a living thing, it's really easy to take care of.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Cool educational lesson
Comment: This was very easy to set up, the tadpole came very quickly. Thought it might die at first because it didn't move much, but perked up less than a day after it came. It's almost a frog now, just waiting for the stage 2 habitat to arrive. Only con I can think of is it's quite pricy to transition to the stage 2.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Ribbit
Comment: My 10 year old son loved this kit for his Christmas present. The company will not ship the tadpole unless weather conditions are just right, so be prepared to possibly wait if you live in the North. They ship from Florida. Unfortunately, because of the carelessness of the United States Postal Service, Grow-A-Frog had to ship a tadpole three times. Although the mailing box is clearly marked "do no place in mailbox", they did so, resulting in boiled frog. The second mailing was lost in the mail for 1 week. It finally arrived, but only frog mush remained. The third tadpole arrived safely and is thriving, only because I had it mailed to my PO Box. Despite all of the mailing issues, my son is have a grand time with his frog. He is taking care of it on his own, and learning a little be more about responsibility. Too bad the USPS has learned a lesson in that regard.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Do some research on these things first.
Comment: My daughter had been begging me for one of those caterpillar/butterfly kits. I talked her out of it because the thing looked like so big and bulky. We ended up with a grow a frog kit instead. I had wondered how amazon got me these live tadpoles, this is how it worked. I got the package from amazon which is basically a box with tadpole food, habitat and a card that says "good for one grow a frog". The card is mailed in to the grow a frog folks who then mail you a tadpole in a starfoam container.

My kids had fun watching it grow into a frog. Yes you can see the frog's internal organs. I am highly pleased with what I got. When the tadpole became a frog I ordered other items from the grow a frog company including a stage 2 habitat and frog food. The stage 2 habitat was cheap and sprung a leak. My advice is that when your tadpole becomes a frog, put it in an aquarium.

Some of the things I've learned is that despite what grow a frog says, once your tadpole becomes a frog you do not have to use spring water, treated tap water will do but not distilled water. These frogs need a place to hide, buy some aquarium decorations that allow the frogs to swim around in. My kids bought a ceramic log that the frogs seem to enjoy. DO NOT use small gravel in the aquarium with the frogs. They will eat it. I made this mistake but switched the gravel out for rocks once I noticed my frog pooping pink gravel. These things are messy, really messy. They poop quite a bit and shed their skin. Frogs normally eat their skin once shed but mine never have. I bought an aquarium vacuum that helps keep things clean, it cost me around 10 dollars at the pet store. Pet stores also sell cans of krill, shrimp or reptile sticks that your frog will enjoy just as much as the food from grow a frog.

My kids have gotten sorta bored with the frogs (we have 2 now) but I really like these stupid things. They're very relaxing to watch. Also these frogs are African Clawed frogs. If you do a google search for African clawed frogs you will learn a good deal about what you are getting yourself into. They are a little bit of work but I enjoy them.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Froggy has passed
Comment: Cute idea, felt a little bad for the tadpole we received, died after about 2 weeks, the instructions talk about keeping the water cloudy so that there is a constant food supply, we feed everyday and just couldn't get the water cloudy, it stayed clear and I think Froggy starved to death. My son was a bit sad, it gave us a chance to talk about taking care of animals and a bit about death, he wants to get another one and try again. We probably will, and might upgrade to a better tank and system so that the frog stays warm and the food balance in the water stays at a level that will provide what the frog needs.

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