Just bought a tadpole... help!!

[Kisa]

unfortantly we have the same problem here with people and aquariums.

gives me the s**ts to no end knowing people try raise amphibians when they dont know nothing about.

i went into a aquarium here where i live and the guy had australian banjo tadpole that had there front legs and was trying to find land to get out of the water and i told them and they didnt even seem to care. they have a fully grown australian Green Tree Frog about 7cm in length in a 6 gallon tank with little water and a tree branch floating in the water.

the sad thing was they wanted almost $100 for it.

OMg that is so sad...D: Poor thing I wish I could rescue him! ><

Damn these pet stores you guys, seriously. The way they treat their animals is really deplorable sometimes. I have to commend some PetSmarts near my house though after hearing some horror stories and seeing turtles in such small tanks that they can't even turn around at another local exotics shop....>> At least the PetSmarts/Petcos only house animals that fit in the space they can provide, the local shop I referred too earlier has too many animals packed into too small of a space. It's...pathetic and sad.

Not to mention the knowledge of the associates that work in these stores. I wish I could get hired at one of them so that I could help people who are looking for reptiles/amphibians with what little knowledge I have...

I once went into a pet store down the street, it was locally owned, to ask if they had feeding tongs. The owner asked me what animal I was feeding and what critters I was feeding it, I told him a WTF and crickets, then he went on to lecture me about feeding crickets to frogs is bad because they bite and what I should be feeding him are super/mealworms. :/ I didn't even bother arguing I just left. He was adamant that crickets would kill my frog and I should go on the safer side and feed them worms. When I told him about the chitin content and hard outer shells of the worms he dismissed me and went on...

Super annoying. :/

Make sure you do your research at the right places before buying any frog though, it will do both you and your pets a great disservice not to.

[Froggiestyle]

i studyed for about a month before i got frogs and had a tank setup for a week before placing frogs into it.

im looking for some tropical frogs now.

studyed up on this getting a tank twice what they actually need, bigger the better.

and stuff like that dont you just wish they never owned a shop???

[mommyof4froglovers]

I didn't know what I was doing, when I got my whites tree frog but I did research almost from the beginning and now am looking for a bigger tank for him and looking for info on a northern leopard frog tadpole we are getting next week. That way once the tadpole is a frog his or her aquarium will be ready if not before then because we are trying to find one for it also.