I bought a pair of albino bull frog tad poles for my son's preschool class. One didn't make it, but the other is now the new pet in my home. The pet store where I bought them gave me lots of erroneous information and has since closed. I found a new pet store that seems a bit more reputable where I now buy crickets.

So when he first changed from a tad pole, I bought some gravel and made him a sloping beach out of the water. This was OK until the gravel started to stink (even when we cleaned thoroughly and often). The new pet store recommended a habitat with much less water and a lot of moss. I bought this and included a bowl of water in the aquarium. The bowl was attached to a sloping rock where he could easily get out of the water and go sit on the moss if he wanted. The thing was that he just floated in the bowl of water for the entire week that he cage was set up like that. I don't think he liked it.

Based on his extreme preference for the water, I changed the aquarium to be mostly water again. It has maybe 6 inches of water. There is a floating lilly pad where I have fed him crickets. I sandstone bridge that sits about half an inch out of the water and then another rock that sits just below the surface of the water.

Here is my burning question, if bull frogs are supposed to like less aquatic environments (per the new pet store), why does he almost exclusively swim or float in the water??? I took him in so that the new pet store could confirm that he is a bull frog and not a regular frog. I bought a light that is on during the day. I just bought another black light bulb, so I can go back to having the light on at night. Is he cold? is he OK? Should I worry about him swimming all the time? Does he need less water? Should I have given the moss more than a week?

I am a newbie and want to do a good job of caring for him. Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Also, how much should he eat and how often?