bullfrog advice needed

[-okapi-]

I aquired an albino bullfrog (the northeastern american kind, im working on finding scientific name...) last monday from a pet store. She had been there for over a month in a 5 gallon aquarium with about 1 cm of water so i did an impulse buy and brought her home. Right now she is in a 10 gallon aquarium with 3inches of water and a land area. So far she has eaten 10 adult crickets. Right now i have 3 feeder goldfish, 1 superworm beetle and 4 crickets in there with her. I plan on buying a 55 gallon aquarium and setting up a "rocky stream" with large round rocks, pea gravel, aquatic plants and a piece of driftwood in the water area.

Does anyone have advice/ideas? TY

[herp_collector]

It probably won't eat the beetle. Pick one up and smell it some time. It tastes (most likely) a lot worse. Bullfrogs will eat anything and your cage idea sounds great. I doubt it will eat the goldfish though. Don't try to keep anything with it other than a frog the same size as I have first hand witnessed a large bullfrog snatch up a medium sized leopard frog when I was feild herping by Georgian Bay.

[the_frog_man]

acually he prolly will eat the beetle of all the water frogs ive kept they all ate large darkling beetles (ie:einstein (my ******** albino american bull frog) and southern leopard frogs)
what are the demenions of your 55 gal tank a tank for bull frogs should be a foot and a half to 2 feet tall and really long so it can develop leg mucles
and the rocky stream would be good




thanx froggy

[thunder]

It will probably eat the beetle if you offer it on tongs or in the water. If it's just crawling around on the land area the frog might not eat it. But bullfrogs will eat just about anything, so it's a possibility. You probably shouldn't leave the beetle in there forever, because I don't know whether or not if will eventually chew on the frog like a cricket would. I've found that a bullfrog will eat pretty much anything if you offer it on tongs. I feed my big bullfrogs crickets, mealworms, super worms, the occasional mealworm beetle, earthworms, goldfish, guppies, mice, rat pinks, the occasional treefrog or leopard frog or other small frog or tadpole if I have too many of them around. Sometimes waxworms too. Basically, they'll eat anything. They'll eat small reptiles too, as well as bits of meat.

[crittermom]

I saw today at the local pet store canned foods such as crickets, mealworms, etc. I assume they are dried....would a frog even try these? Maybe with tongs? I just was curious.....might be ok if you had a can around just in case you ran out of food and needed them until you get to the pet store (not that I would let myself run out but hey once snow falls anything can happen from slick roads to power outages) I will try to keep a supply but you never know....what is your opinions? Have you tried these?