Green Frogs (Rana clamitans)-- Information needed first

[jpownall]

Hello everyone--

I had posted a few weeks ago looking for advice on a tank for green frogs (Rana clamitans). I work as an environmental educator in Newark, NJ. We are in the process of writing a frog program, and I have been working on a proposal to submit to my director on what will be needed to design & build an enclosure for 3 green frogs. I have pretty much all the information except for one thing--where to get the frogs! Can anyone recommend somewhere that I can obtain 3 captive bred green frogs from? I would need to know prices & things to include in the proposal before I would officially be able to purchase them. Obviously if it were somewhere in the NY/NJ area that would be best, but if it were necessary to have them shipped, that would probably be fine also.

Thanks so much for the help, and I look forward to sharing photos with all of you as things progress!

[Pluke]

Hi Jess, I couldn't find any for sale ATM but you should keep an eye on the Amphibians section of Faunaclassifieds.com and Kingsnake.com Classifieds > Other Frog Classifieds

Odds are though you probably won't find captive bred ones for sale, I don't think I've seen these frogs for sale too often as it is. Wish I could be more helpful.

[killerecho]

Jess, my friend has green frogs and tadpoles around her property in Pennsylvania by the hundreds. I can ask her, if you can make sure that there are no legal issues with transporting this species across state lines.

[Psychotic]

I have a bunch of green frogs. I bred them and kept some of the babies because they had neat patterns. The two that originally bred died a couple months ago (very sad to loose them, they were beautiful green). The ones I have left have not bred at all, but they are young. I hope for them to breed this coming spring. Who knows if they will or not?

Glad that I'm not the only one interested in them. They are very fun to watch. They know when feeding time is and they all sit in a row looking out of the front glass waiting for someone to bring them dinner! Some of them even will take food from your hand and make little noises at you. Very cute frogs!

They also seem to enjoy waterfalls. I have a little canister filter in their tank that I made a waterfall with. They like to sit on the ramp and let the water flow over and around them.

Only draw back is males tend to be very territorial so I wouldn't have more than one in a tank and he may also bully the females at feeding time. If you have a male you may need to feed him separately.

I've never seen green frogs offered for sale on any of the popular herp websites and forums. Not even wild caught. I guess there isn't much interest in them. Plus they are so common in the wild that most people just catch their own.