Blue bullfrog

[Critter]

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum so I hope I am doing this correctly. I have had my koi fish pond for 10 years now and I have a lot of bullfrogs. Recently I discovered a blue bullfrog that was hatched in my pond I'm pretty sure. I looked it up online and apparently it is a mutation that occurs only in about one in a million. Does anyone else have one of these blue bullfrogs?

 

[Lisak1]

Wow! He is a special guy! I've never seen one like that before.

Welcome to the GPF!

 

[Mmathis]

Hello and welcome to our group!

I don't have bullfrogs, but that one sure is handsome!

 

[AlyssaFish]

Very cool! I wonder if it's heritable!

 

[Critter]

Wow! He is a special guy! I've never seen one like that before.

Welcome to the GPF!

Thank you. Yes he is special! I would love to find out more about him but there is not a lot on the web about it.

 

[Critter]

Hello and welcome to our group!

I don't have bullfrogs, but that one sure is handsome!

Thank you! Yes I think he is too!

 

[Critter]

Very cool! I wonder if it's heritable!

I wonder too. Who knows maybe next year I will have more blue frogs!

 

[tbendl]

Wow how cool is that. I've never seen that color on a frog before.

 

[Critter]

Wow how cool is that. I've never seen that color on a frog before.

I was so excited when I first saw it!

 

[Nyboy]

I once found a albino frog on the cover to my hot tub. I was with 2 friends between the 3 of us no one had their phone to take his picture. The next day when I looked up this super rare frog, I got a big disappointment albino frogs are not rare. It might be rare he survived predators. Good luck with your blue frog, hopefully he will reproduce .

 

[addy1]

Pretty boy! Hope it sticks around.

 

[DutchMuch]

neato

 

[Wayfarin]

I once found a albino frog on the cover to my hot tub. I was with 2 friends between the 3 of us no one had their phone to take his picture. The next day when I looked up this super rare frog, I got a big disappointment albino frogs are not rare. It might be rare he survived predators. Good luck with your blue frog, hopefully he will reproduce .

I know that it's late to reply, but I saw your comment and I just felt like replying to say this.
Albino animals in the wild are very rare! In captivity they are common, but in the wild they seldom survive to pass on their albinism, so the genetics are hard to come by, and it is rare for natural animals that are not albinos to give birth to them.

Perhaps it was once someone's pet, though? American bullfrogs and African clawed frogs are often released in ponds, which shouldn't be done but is done anyway by pet owners who cannot (or won't) care for their pets once they outgrow their tanks.