Are northern leopard frogs available as pets?

[somuchpaint]

To be honest, all my other frogs are mostly desert dwellers or tree frogs, so I haven't dealt with filtration systems much. What I can tell you based on my three is that yes, they burrow a lot (when I got home today, I thought Essie got out because I couldn't find her...turns out she had completely burrowed!) which means they get substrate everywhere. I'm constantly washing substrate out of the water dishes. I'm not certain how the turtle filtration system would work with that.

I took your advice (at least for the time being) and have my two southern leopard frogs in a few inches of coconut fiber bedding (soaked to expand) with an easy-to-crawl-out-of water dish, all in a 40 gallon breeder. I have some magnolia leaves, collected and washed in water by my daughter, and baked in the oven until I was worried they were going to burn, in one corner. One of them prefers to hide under the leaves. The other spends much of its time in the water dish. (The third one died before I had a chance to move them. It had some wounds received as a tadpole.)

I am finding it simple to rinse out and refresh their water bowl. It does collect substrate, but not too badly. It will probably be worse when they are bigger.