Discovery Exclusive Frog Pond Terrarium Reviews

• Disappointing

  
  By A3MHLL5EIFVD04 on 2007-04-24
  I bought the frog habitat before doing any real research into frog keeping, and now I feel I wasted money and I would have deprived my daughter of an actual learning experience had I continued to use it. I ordered a "free" tadpole (with a $7 shipping/handling fee). It came about four weeks later by mail. I put it in the habitat following the directions and it lasted maybe 4 hours. They promptly sent a replacement which lived slightly longer. HEARTBREAKING for my daughter. I've since learned that the kind of tadpole they send is notoriously difficult to care for at that age. I later bought the same kind of tadpole, but much older, at a local store and have it in a conventional aquarium with a filter and aeration. Boy, is that sucker hardy compared to what they sent!
  
  I have put the frog enclosure away. I may use it for crickets or something. The kind of tadpole they send is leopard frog. Leopard frogs are jumpers. Based on my research, the habitat is really too small for this kind of frog. I have since built a terrarium with my daughter that I plan to house the current tad in when it reaches the frog stage. It has nice green plants and dirt and rocks. In short, it is a much more appropriate home for a frog. We had a lot of fun building it and we got to talk about the environment and how things depend on each other. Much more educational and it's prettier to look at.
  
  Also, this thing leaks if you get any water between the plastic layers, which is very easy to do when you fill it.
  
  

• looks good, doesn't function very well for animals

  
  By A2NVCCRVRHY4I2 on 2007-04-24
  This thing looks like a great idea, but there are fundamental design flaws. My 7 year daughter waited for the full 10 weeks to receive her "free" tadpole ($6 shipping and handling), and, on day one, we found it had jumped out of the water, and ended up between the plastic layers and died. She was so bumbed. So, we then purchased a firebelly frog, which eats crickets. The crickets are now doing the same thing, jumping to the edges, and falling between plastic layers. We're going to replace this thing with a regular 10 gallon tank.
  
  I do admit, the frog looks darn cute in this habitat, but for practicality, it's just not going to work.
  
  

• Polly went belly up

  
  By AIPVNMS6HETRQ on 2007-06-04
  My 6 year old twins have wanted this bug/frog habitat since the first day they saw it. We decided it would make a fun and eductional birthday gift and summer project. Having ordered ladybugs and ants by mail before, we decided to go to our "local pet store". The instructions make it sound as if any pet store would have a leopard frog tadpole and this is not the case. Finding one at an exotic pet store,we bought one and have enjoyed it for about 2 weeks. One night, "Polly" jumped out and got stuck between the habitat and the cover. The boys were crushed. In addition to our questioning how a full sized leopard frog would be content living in this habitat, the full extent of what we were getting into was a surprise as well. The frog feeding and life expectancy require more research than indicated. Our habitat also "leaked" if you got water between the insert and base.
  
  

• It does not work to have frogs in it, they will get stucked..and die...

  
  By A31RMP0VN2COUT on 2007-08-21
  Me and my two girls bought this at Target this summer. It is hard plastic around, and a softer plastic where you have the water for the frogs, it is hard to change the water by your self, you have to be two, becouse the plastic where the water is is so soft. when the frogs are a little bit older, and trie to climb on to land, there is a chanse they never make it, becouse there is a gap betweene where the water is and where the dry land is, and if they get between there, they will never come up (they should have made the hole thing in one big piece!), becouse you cant lift the land up, withoute distroy the habita. and the poore little frogs that comes beetween are just lying there dying, and then it starts to smell..., and the kids are upset...
  And there is a lot of holes in the bottom, so when my girls are loking at the frogs, and they move the habita a bit, sometimes some water comes out on the table where it stands, so be carefoul you don't distroy youre table, like we did.
  
  I could not recomend you to buy this product, it looks qute, and it is a nice idea, but it is not practicall!!
  
  (sorry for the bad english i am using, but I am working on that ;))
  
  If you really want a habita for frogs, look at this to: GROW-A-FROG
  I heard they should have good habitas, but I did not try it.
  
  
  

• Good for critters other than "Frogs"

  
  By A1ESRWEZ77YVCP on 2008-04-25
  My daughter received this for her 9th birthday. She also has the Backyard Safari Bug Habitat as well as the Safari Bug Vacuum. We didn't bother to order the tadpole, since we have a pond close by that we could gather tadpoles and small (1 inch) peeper frogs from if we wanted.
  
  Rather than use this as a "frog" habitat she uses it to house her salamander "Sally Mander", who is 11 cm. long. We fill the water container only 1/2 to 3/4 full, and added a few rocks so "Sally" could hide when needed. Since the salamander is slender, "Sally" can climb between the water container and the interior shell and not get caught or hurt. She even climbs the sides of the tank and takes an occasional swim through the water. We use the Safari Bug Habitat and vacuum to catch and store bugs for "Sally" and my daughter also uses the Bug Habitat to keep her salamander in while she cleans out the water tray from the Safari Frog Habitat. We have had frogs before and have the best luck keeping them in an aquarium designed as a terrarium with live plants.
  
  "Sally" seems quite content and loves being in her Backyard Safari Frog Habitat. I suppose it would work quite well as a home for newts too! As for keeping frogs, it appears from other reviews on this product, its not the best.
  
  

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