Not a frog / Not a tadpole

[donny young]

I have a frog that’s in limbo. It has 4 legs and a tail. It’s been this way since last summer. Will it ever complete the transition?

 

[Mmathis]

Maybe it’s a bullfrog. I hear that they take longer to transition.

 

[bagsmom]

Are you 100% sure it is a tadpole and not a salamander? I don't know anything about frogs, though. Maybe some take a year to change?

 

[donny young]

Are you 100% sure it is a tadpole and not a salamander? I don't know anything about frogs, though. Maybe some take a year to change?

I am pretty sure it’s a tadpole. Got a bunch from a pond supply store

 

[j.w]

I think there are some frogs that take a couple yrs to fully develop. Think @addy might have told me this.

 

[snoozer]

Bull frogs take quite a while. When my kids were in grade school i bought bull frogs tadpoles for the classroom. They came back home and were still tadpoles with the start of legs when the school year was over. It was fall before they were done.

 

[WaterGardener]

I read that with a late brood of eggs, tadpoles may not fully transform before winter. That process will stop until things heat up again in spring. Maybe that is what happened here at it just needs more time?

Or maybe it's a bullfrog which can take as long as 2 years to transform.

 

[addy1]

Our green frogs take two years, big tadpoles.

 

[Jerri]

I have a frog that’s in limbo. It has 4 legs and a tail. It’s been this way since last summer. Will it ever complete the transition?

 

[Jerri]

Do you have salamanders in your area? Could be or the frog was caught at hibernation time last season. Will complete come warm weather.

 

[bossheath]

Don't you just hate it when amphibians won't commit.

 

[donny young]

Don't you just hate it when amphibians won't commit.

pick a side already