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| Brand: American Science and Surplus
Category: Toy
List Price: $24.99
Buy New: $15.00
You Save: $9.99 (40%)
New (12) from $15.00
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 1179
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 3 - 99 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 3.5 x 4.5
Warranty: Guaranteed to Grow!
MPN: 2524
Model: 2524
UPC: 081418125240
EAN: 0081418125240
ASIN: B00005C0VD
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Mail Order Frogs! We're talking a major improvement on bills, catalogs, and credit card offers on the porch floor. | | • | We're talking an actual transparent tadpole in the mailbox, ready to grow up in your home, like a puppy but without the chewed furniture. | | • | We'll send you the kit, with a 4-1/2" square x 3-1/2" tall acrylic box with a vented lid, spoon, 2-oz bag of food, 1-1/2-oz bag of sand, 48pp instruction booklet, and a little plastic plant for verisimilitude. | | • | You mail the enclosed postcard and the Grow-A-Frog people send you a gen-yoo-ine, actual live tadpole or froglet (depending upon the season) with see-through skin so you can watch its little inner organs grow. Much better than television. |
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Product Description
The Grow-A-Frog kit comes with a 4.50" square x 3.50" tall acrylic box with a vented lid, spoon, 2 ounce bag of food, 1.50 ounce bag of sand, 48 pages instruction booklet, and a little plastic plant for verisimilitude. It comes with actual live tadpole or frog let, which depends upon the season with see-through skin so you can watch its little inner organs grow. It is much better than television.
Teacher Review
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Do some research on these things first. September 2, 2008
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.
 Froggy has passed August 30, 2008
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.
Excellent nursery kit but needs bigger habitat June 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 should only be for tadpole raising, and newborn froglets.
After the froglets are born however, in a couple weeks or less I would get at least a gallon tank per frog you have. These frogs will need the space to swim and would just be more entertaining for your family. They will only grow according to the tank size. If you leave them in this small cube too long I'm afraid it's putting fatality at a higher risk.
I have 3 of these frogs in a 10 gallon glass tank, bare bottom too. They do love company of other frogs of their own kind (african clawed frog). I don't have any gravel or substrate for easier cleaning. Just use a turkey baster to suck up frog waste, and they do waste alot! At night, I often find all three frogs I have laying around each other, so don't be afraid to get two frogs. They will be buddies for life =)
Oh, did anyone mention the Grow-A-Frog lifetime gaurantee? Thats right if at anytime you have problems just email or call them. Their customer service is friendly and understanding.
I feed them HBH tadpole and frog tablets since they were born and they look very healthy and show rapid growth. Also feed them some Freezed Dried bloodworms as a treat. They love it! Thats about it, these frogs are very low maintenance once you get the hang of it. Please do research the African Clawed Frog on google. It's all well worth it.
Sneaky, the Grow-A-Frog, now 19.5 years old!! May 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We first got our Grow-A-Frog in September 1988. He has lived in two states and vacationed in a couple more. Transported him when we moved in 1989 in glass cranberry juice large bottle (wide spout) in a foam-lined bucket, air holes in lid. (Even been in MacDonalds so he wouldn't boil in the car). Fun to watch metamorphose. Skin not transparent when a frog. I found changing water/ cleaning tank not very time consuming at all. Just have to make sure water has had time for dechlorination crystals to work and equilibrate to room temperature. He now lives in a plastic tank made for hermit crabs since Grow-A-Frog Stage 2 tank too small. Easy to order more adult frog food. I don't think Sneaky is the oldest Grow-A-Frog ever. Think I read on the Internet of one that was 21.
Great Toy, Great Guarantee May 25, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is an excellent learning kit. For those who are concerned about the frog's longevity, and the idea that some irresponsible frog parents may let them go, or worse, let them die, the company offers to take in any unwanted frogs:
WE WILL WELCOME YOUR FROG BACK HOME
We know you love your Growafrog. Every now and then, however, a situation arises in which a Growafrog care-giver can no longer take care of their frog. If this should ever happen to you, please simply E-mail us so we may send you 'breathable bags' with instructions on how to send your frogs home to us. In no instance should you ever let your frogs 'go' into a pond or lake. Never release any kind of animal into the natural environment near your home ( unless it came from there in the first place ). To request your breathable bags at no charge at all, please simply E-mail us your complete name, address, city, state, and zipcode here.
http://www.growafrog.com/quesfrog.html#Anchor-2765
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