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I seem to remember that Leopard Frogs aren't native to your area. You just don't understand, don't you? NO NON-NATIVE FROGS OR TADPOLES AT ALL. I don't care if you heard it from your elementary school science teacher, do not add on to the non native population. Either the leapord frog will outcompete the existing wildlife for food, or the frog won't be able to tolerate the weather and die. Unless if you plan on keeping the frog in a very large enclosure that there is absolutely no escape from when he grows up, then don't even consider it.
 
Don't you understand the quote from jurassic park?"Life will find a way"???We are trying to help you,if you want frogs setup a tank indoor for them.
 
Leopard frogs are not native to your area. Don't get them.

Where I live we have thousands of leopard frogs. They are out in the cold, they are out in the heat, they are out in drough and in floods. They breed prolificly and are voracious eaters. They will survive in your yard and they will spread and devestate local wildlife. I don't care if the president told you that you could buy one. It doesn't mean its safe for the environment.

You pond is overstocked anyway.

You have to many goldfish that you don't take care of well, goldfish aren't designed to eat mud, or larva. They eat insects and smaller fish. Mud and larva don't have the protein and nutrients they need to sustain their body size. How about you eat one cracker everyday and see how you feel in a week.

I have a feeling you will get a koi. Which you will underfeed and stunt. It will live a horrible life.

You will also probably just go get a frog from you lfs still and ignore those that try to explain things to you. Have fun wrecking the environment. People like you are the reason we have so many stupid laws in this country. Thank you. I hope you have fun ruining the environment.

Oh and as a side note, If you decide to keep a frog indoors don't get a leopard, they get to big for 100+ gallon tanks. They can leap 6+ feet and hurt themselves on the glass. I suggest a tree frog or a Fire bellied toad.

Take the advice of others when you ask for it, don't just ignore it.
 
This is a river in southern mexico, an area where this pleco is not a native species. Notice the lack of vegetation, and the lack of other species of fish. This is what happens when non native species are introduced to an ecosystem. If you want more examples. Look up lespadeza, a plant that is taking over the midwest, or zebra mussles that are clogging water ways across the country. Azolla a plant that grows like duckweed only larger and is covering parts of florida rivers up to 1' thick in places and preventing river travel and killing entire ecosystems through light deprevation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqgjgN7HIig

We don't mean to seem mean, but we harp at people like you for a reason. All of us here care about the environment. We want to preserve it but at the rate the rest of our species is going we will soon kill ourselves and destroy the planet at the same time.
 
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