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! Grow A Frog CANNOT be shipped to AZ,CA,HI,MT,NV,OR,UT,WA or out of the country.
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 Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Ribbit:
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... more info
Do some research on these things first.:
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... more info
Froggy has passed:
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... more info
Excellent nursery kit but needs bigger habitat:
Hello! I've had Grow-A-Frog for about 4 months now. My frogs are HUGE now, so be warned they do grow extremely fast! Also an important note is this Grow-A-Frog tadpole is the African Clawed Frog, which is NOT the same as the African Dwarf Frog which is commonly sold in pet stores. The kit sold on this item page is a small "nursery" cube I like to call it, compared to what you'll need eventually. When you think nursery you think infant baby right? So it makes sense that the small cube included in this kit... more info
