Animal Planet Frog Habitat

by Uncle Milton

Product Features

• Specially-designed frog habitat gives you a close-up view as a tadpole grows into a frog
• 15 1/2" x 8 1/4" living space includes a pool and a cozy cave
• Informative instruction manual features care instructions and frog facts
• Tadpole order form included

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• ASIN: B00002JX0J
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,605 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Planet Frog: Live Frog Habitat is a great way to learn about our friends the frogs. This deluxe, lightweight, plastic frog habitat (15 by 8.5 by 6.75 inches) fits on an end table, yet is roomy enough for one or two frogs (3 inches or smaller). You may want to send off the included form to order a live tadpole or two (100-percent captive-bred leopard frog tadpole--Rana pipiens--indigenous to North America). Clever construction of the molded clear and opaque plastic allows you to see your pet swimming underwater and to observe close-up as the tadpole undergoes its transformation. Above water level, a little island, fake rocks, and plastic greenery provide landscape interest, and a faux rock cave offers shelter. The clear lid, which doubles as a magnifying glass to get a closer look at your frog, has air vents plus an opening to drop food in. You'll need bottled spring or drinking water and food, of course. And, as the excellent 16-page booklet mentions (care and feeding, interesting facts, answers to common questions, and more), you'll want to know that the Rana pipiens tadpoles are shipped only when the temperature in your area is above 40 degrees Fahrenheit at night and below 90 degrees during the day. --Ava Natov

Product Description

Watch a miracle of nature take place as a tadpole grows into a frog. This specially-designed frog habitat gives you a close-up view. The 15 1/2" x 8 1/4" living space includes a pool and a cozy cave. The informative instruction manual features care instructions and frog facts. Tadpole order form included. There is a nominal fee for shipment of tadpoles.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Educational Toy, June 23, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Animal Planet Frog Habitat (Toy)

It works like a real pond. After about 2 weeks, the tadpoles arrived in the mail healthy. We placed them in the habitat and watched them transform into frogs over the next several months. It was facinating to watch. The water portion of the habitat has several levels so that as the tadpole transforms, he can come up from the deeper portion and start to breathe air. These levels also make it easy for the frog to get onto "dry land" where they can hop around or sleep in a little cave made of plastic. My 5 year old son loves it and searches the yard and house to find bugs to feed the frogs. The kit also comes with tadpole food. I would recommend it and I don't at all agree with the review saying it was not well designed or not worth the money.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's not junk, December 8, 2000

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Nick (PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Animal Planet Frog Habitat (Toy)

I do not own this product yet but we have it in our class room at school. All the tadpoles grew up healthy and happy, they even mated! And to the person who didnt even use it and said it sucked and that there way that tadpoles could live in it, we have a cabin up north. And in a creek by it, in a cirle of rocks 1 feet rounded, there were so many tadpoles you couldn't even see the water! We studyed them, and all most all of them grew into frogs. I would have to say this is the best frog habitat I've seen thus far.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Looks can be deceiving, July 17, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Animal Planet Frog Habitat (Toy)

True, one reviewer has said the terrarium was flimsy, which it does first appear, but I have had mine for eight months now and am amazed! Unfortunately, the short booklet that came with the "Planet Frog" said after the tadpoles arrive would be the most exciting two to three weeks of the frogs development. BUT -- in reality it has taken months for the transformation since receiving the healthy tadpoles in the mail. One is a full size frog, the other is just now developing legs. You also get the added bonues of seeing the lifecycle of the live crickets which the frogs live on once fully developed. I am very happy with the product.