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Frog Hatchery Deluxe Kit
Observe frog metamorphosis up close with this deluxe frog hatchery kit! Learn about the lifecycle of a frog as you first watch tiny embryos develop into tadpoles and then the tadpoles grow legs and develop into frogs. This frog hatchery has an ideal habitat with a large, clear plastic tank that has a removable ventilated cover. This habitat is large enough to keep adult frogs in. Everything is included: special food, magnifier, instructions for raising and caring for your frogs, and a fully pre-paid coupon for 6-10 live frog embryos (redeemable in the continental US, excluding Utah). A bonus pack of adult frog food is also included. Ages 8 & up.
You may get either African clawed frog or Grass frog embryos when you redeem your coupon, depending on where you live and the time of year. (See details below.) African clawed frogs (species Xenopus laevis) live their life entirely in water. Their tadpoles have both gills and lungs so they can breathe in water or at the surface. Grass frogs (species Rana pipiens) live entirely in water before maturing and live both in water and on land as adults. Their tadpoles have only gills to breathe in water. Adults of both species have only lungs and must come to the surface to breathe.
Kit Contents:
- Deluxe clear habitat (about 1 gallon in size) and removable ventilated cover
- Fully pre-paid coupon for 6-10 live frog embryos redeemable in continental US except Utah
- Detailed Home Science Tools instructions for raising and caring for your frogs
- Special food to feed your frogs from embryo to tadpole to adult (enough for 4-6 months)
- Bonus pack of adult frog food (enough for an additional 3-4 months)
- 3x/6x acrylic hand magnifier to see your frog embryos grow and mature into adult frogs
Shipping Restrictions: The frog tadpole coupon in this kit can only be redeemed in the continental US, excluding Utah. Live embryos cannot be shipped April through October to AZ, CA, HI, MT, NV, NJ, NC, OR, VA, or WA. From November through March the states listed above will receive Grass frogs. All other states will receive whatever is readily available, either African clawed frogs or Grass frogs. You cannot choose the species shipped. Typically you will receive your frog embryos 2-3 weeks after you mail the coupon. However, severe weather, very warm weather (over 82°), or limited supply may delay shipment for several additional weeks.
Development time: Metamorphosis from tadpole to young frog can take 6-12 weeks. Factors such as tadpole age upon arrival and water temperature, food, and other habitat conditions can affect their growth rate.
Guarantee: Nasco, the biological supplier of the frog embryos, guarantees that at least one tadpole will be alive and in good condition when it arrives. Due to conditions beyond our control, we cannot guarantee the life of the embryos or that they will grow into mature frogs.
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Overall Rating:  Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers Sort Reviews: Newest | Oldest | Highest Rating | Lowest Rating  - Friday, January 27, 2012 The kids (and parents!) LOVED it!Reviewed By: Sharon We all loved this kit. We received 11 eggs, but only one developed into a tadpole. The kids had so much fun watching him grow and develop day to day. He's been in his new habitat for a couple of weeks now and they still watch him all the time.
The only downside... We got leopard frogs and I didn't realize they had to be fed live food after they become frogs. It makes it a little harder (it's now Daddy's job!) but still absolutely worth all the fun and learning!  - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Great but some adviceReviewed By: Tamra We have had a lot of fun watching our one tadpole that hatched grow into a frog. He was just starting to climb up onto the wood, however his tail was still about an inch. We were planning to change his habitat today but found that he had died this morning. Soooo sad. After all that work and his effort trying to get up on the wood. We don't know exactly why he died, but we would recommend having some kind of rock that sticks up out of the water to give the froglet a more secure place to be when he's ready to climb onto land. The floating wood was just too hard for the little thing to climb onto. He made it once but then couldn't do it again. Now we know. The kids were so careful to follow all the instructions, but the instructions are not perfect. - Sunday, May 15, 2011 fun for all!Reviewed By: Gretta Davis I am a homeschool mother of 3. We have had our tadpoles for 8 wks now. It is very fun watching them develop their legs! My kids named one of them Goliath, because he is at least twice the size of the others. We started with 9 eggs and are down to 4 very healthy, livley, tadpoles. Our cats ate the included tadpole food, so I have been feeding them boiled lettuce. They seem to like this better, and it doesn't make the tank as dirty. We highly recomend this kit. We also used model magic to build models of the frog stages, a great way to round out the lesson!  - Sunday, October 03, 2010 Not many embryosReviewed By: Andria Only 3 embryos arrived. We saw one tadpole hatch and start swimming. It died the next day. - Tuesday, May 04, 2010 Don't make my mistakeReviewed By: Janalee Gold I didn't read the description on this kit very well and realized after it arrived that frogs cannot be shipped to my state. Also, if African water frogs are illegal in your state, you may only be able to get frogs from November to April. I was able to find some toad tadpoles in a friends pond and we will still enjoy the magic of this well put together kit. Also, Home Science Tools is refunding the cost of the prepaid coupon. They are obviously a company that is good to their customers. Still, the runaround is not worth it, so don't make the same mistake I did. Read More Reviews - Friday, April 03, 2009
We enjoyed our frogs!!!
Reviewed By: Toni
We really enjoyed our frog kit. It has been a few years and I don't remember how many tadpoles hatched but we did have 3 tiny frogs that survived. We were excited and my daughter gave them all names of course. People do need to be aware that as the tadpoles are developing legs, they are also developing lungs. So, some type of flat rock needs to be placed in the tank for them them to crawl on. Also, they were so small we had a hard time finding things to feed them. So we ended up going to a pet store and buying dried flies. We would dangle them by using tweezers in front of each frog once or twice a day. LOL
- Sunday, July 06, 2008
Lots of frogs!
This was an excellent family science experiment that was purchased to accompany a pond life study for our 4 homeschooled kids. The first set of tadpole eggs arrived quickly but unfortunately they did not develop. A quick email to Homesciencetools solved that and I had a new coupon within a few days and sent that into Nasco. Within a week, we had 17 leopard frog eggs to start, all were growing. The final result, four healthy adult frogs. We also learned that larger frogs will eat smaller frogs so we now have 3 adults and they have been divided up into two different terrariums. This was a fun study and the habitat is perfect for keeping insects to feed the frogs if you decide to put them into a separate aquarium.
- Thursday, February 15, 2007
two healthy froglets
We sent in our coupon in the fall. We quickly recieved 8 leopard frog eggs. One was smashed, one had two cells in one (twins?), but it did not evolve. Three of the eggs began to elongate and then we could identify the head end. My children enjoyed watching the embryos wiggle in their clear jelly eggs. After they hatched one stopped growing and then died.
We have tried several tadpoles from another frog kit that never survied. So we were very happy with this product.
I would recomened researching the needs of these frogs. The instructions state that you can keep them in a container with a bowl of water. Most experts say a tank (at leat 10 gallon for my 2 frogs) with at least 1/3 water 6-8 inches deep is needed, and a aquarium filter. You also need to feed them live prey, crickets, mealworms, even fish. So the investment of long term care needs to be considered. But we are enjoying finding aquarium decor, plants, water falls, etc to keep our two little ones happy.
- Thursday, July 20, 2006
LOTS OF FUN AND INTERESTING TOO!!!
We received this kit about 3 months ago, and I honestly wasn't sure it would succeed. To our pleasant surprise, every tadpole egg has developed and it has been a LOT of fun for our entire family to watch the tadpoles develop into frogs. I have even caught my husband getting up in the morning and going over to the tank to watch the frogs as he feeds them! He is even talking about getting a large aquarium so we can keep them ALL instead of giving them away! This kit will succeed if you are diligent in the care and feeding of the tadpoles...We all are getting lots of enjoyment out of this kit!!!
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