[JeffAHayes]

I've found finding MATURE bullfrogs here rather difficult... tadpoles are fairly easy to find on a yearly basis, but ya never know if they'll all be male, all female, or a mix... The two I picked to grow up indoors this last time both turned out male (likely due to their environment, if tadpoles are anything like reptiles, but I don't know quite enough to know that)... I KNOW some of the ones I've put in my water garden outside have grown up to be female... In at least one case, I've seen a VERY BIG female; but I don't care to catch one I already have acclimated to my outdoor ponds -- I'd rather trade for one that's used to being indoors (mine haven't been outside since they were tadpoles without any legs, yet).

The ONE TIME I saw a bullfrog for sale in a pet store here they wanted $25 for it, and that's another thing, I'm not ABOUT to pay that much for a frog that's as abundant and indigenous as bullfrogs... But most pet stores don't carry them, and I haven't seen one in a pet store since... can't even get most to carry the tadpoles and have to drive to a nursery in a neighboring city 30 miles away each spring that does a big water gardening business to even get tadpoles (didn't get any this year, as it appeared I FINALLY had enough survive in my ponds for a successful breeding).

Still, they're hard to catch, and I don't really wanna catch one; I wanna trade for one, or even buy one, if it's not too expensive.

Anyone have any thoughts?
Jeff