Want to trade: Mature Male Bullfrog for Female
Ever since I started doing outdoor water gardening in 2001, I began buying bullfrog tadpoles to add some bullfrogs to my yard (expanded from a fountain, to 1 preform pond, to eventually a couple more ponds with a 55-foot stream running between them).
Every year, I'd have a number of tadpoles grow up to be mature-looking frogs by fall, and each spring some of them would still be there, but before cover plants sufficiently developed, they'd disappear (to predators like birds and cats, I assumed)... So in April 2006, I bought a new, slightly larger batch, and kept two to rear inside in an aquarium... They soon grew to be big bullfrogs and eventually outgrew that 10-gallon aquarium they were in, so now they're in a 40-gallon terrarium with a smaller, 5-gallon aquarium at one end, which I periodically stock with feeder fish (otherwise, I mostly feed them gut-loaded crickets)...
The thing is, both turned out male, and both are HUGE... And some days and nights they croak practically non-stop, looking for a mate that's impossible to find in their enclosure. Both are big and healthy (at least a pound, I'd say -- I have pictures), and what I'd like to do is find someone with a spare female bullfrog who either lives close enough to meet and trade "even steven" in person, or else someone out of the area who can work with me on a way to do a successful live-animal transfer... Then I'll never have to worry about replenishing my frogs again, and hopefully I'll make a frog very happy and much less vocal.
Anyone who has a female BF and DOES want to trade, please let me know, ASAP (and if you don't know for sure how to sex them, it's by the ears... if their earpads are the same size as their eyes or smaller, they're female; if they're bigger than the eyes, they're male).
Looking forward to your replies.
Happy Froglovin'!
Jeff
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