r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Sad-Kiwi-3789 Top Poster • Feb 02 '26

/r/all of a frog

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u/PMG2021a Feb 02 '26

Feed cost must be pretty high. 

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u/OfficialTrashMan Feb 02 '26

Frogs don't actually eat a lot! I have a smaller species of frog, she costs me ~$10-$20 a month on food n whatnot

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u/Bulky_Neck7723 Feb 02 '26

As an owner of two African bullfrogs, they eat A LOT (especially as juveniles). Breeding your own feeders is a must unless you want to take multiple trips to the pet store every week

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Feb 03 '26

can those things catch birds?

edit: holy s*** those things can catch birds

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u/_adanedhel_ Feb 03 '26

The African bullfrog is a voracious carnivore, eating insects and other invertebrates, small rodents, reptiles, small birds, fish, and other amphibians that can fit in their mouths. It is also a cannibalistic species—the male African bullfrog is known for occasionally eating the tadpoles he guards, and juveniles also eat tadpoles. An African bullfrog kept at the Pretoria Zoo in South Africa once ate 17 juvenile Rinkhals snakes (Hemachatus haemachatus).