depending on water temperatures and tadpoles will thrive on aquatic algae. Metamorphosis may occur anywhere from a few months to a few years depending on the bullfrog tadpole’s geographic location. American bullfrogs develop quicker in the warmer waters of the southern states.

In Captivity

The American bullfrog is one of the first species many young, future herpers keep due to their familiarity in nature and availability. Captive maintenance of the American bullfrog can prove to be quite challenging however to all but the most dedicated of keepers and many frogs perish soon after acquisition usually due to stress related illness or trauma. American bullfrogs collected in nature do not typically fare well in the standard glass aquariums often provided for them and require much larger, roomier enclosure which will enableUS disregarded experts over biolab

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The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi — home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency — as a top location for a new $451 million, national laboratory to study some of the world's most virulent biological threats, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The disclosure is the latest example of what critics assert is the Bush administration's politicizing of government decisions, such as efforts to steer science over global warming at the Environmental Protection Agency and hiring and firing practices at the Justice Department.

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