FAQ

How do I become a distributor for your company?

In order to qualify as a distributor for The Frog Ranch and purchase from our price list, you must hold a valid business license and meet the minimum order requirements.

How can I view your price list?

If you qualify as a distributor (see above), please e-mail or call us with your request and we can add you to our weekly wholesale price list.

I am a hobbyist. Can I buy frogs from your company?

We do have minimum order thresholds, as we are a wholesale business. E-mail us for details.

Do you ship internationally?

Yes! We are fully licensed to ship our frogs both domestically and internationally. Each of the frog species we offer for sale are non-CITES, with the exception of the Tomato frog, so worldwide shipments are simplified. We can use any licensed export broker you prefer.

If I’m buying frogs from a distributor, how can I be sure they’re from you?

Some distributors claim to carry our frog lines, but in reality are selling inferior imported frogs from Asia, which is unfortunate and unethical. These imported frogs are raised on subpar diets and have gone through the tremendous stress of multi-day international freight transport.

What’s the solution? Always demand frogs from The Frog Ranch. Our frogs’ genetics, conditions, and diet are unsurpassed.

Did The Frog Ranch create the Albino Horned frog?

Yes. The Albino Horned frog was developed by The Frog Ranch and was released in 1992 to much fanfare throughout the world.

Were you the first to breed the Brazilian horned frog?

Yes, The Frog Ranch produced the first known successful captive breeding of Ceratophrys aurita within the United States.

Why aren’t Surinam horned frogs and other “hard to get” horned frogs always available if you breed them at your facility?

Breeding frogs is an extremely involved, complicated and time-consuming process—certain species even more so than others. All frogs produced at The Frog Ranch are bred on site by Sam. When time permits, he devotes his time to breeding the more difficult species.

However, the majority of his time is focused on producing the most sought after species in order to satisfy the desires of most hobbyists. As a result, the more difficult and time-consuming species are produced in smaller numbers and therefore are considered to be more “rare”.

How do I breed frogs?

Successfully breeding frogs is an extremely involved, complicated and time-consuming process. Each species of frog requires intricate and varied environmental and physical triggers. The Frog Ranch has spent decades researching and perfecting protocols for each individual species, and for specific individuals within those species.

It would be virtually impossible to communicate via the written word, given the limited space herein, to adequately communicate a successful formula to even the most experienced herpetoculturist.

Why don’t you sell “blue” frogs?

The “blue” frog was originally offered for sale prior to 1989 by a private breeder in Southern California and was originally sold under the name of “Turquoise” Pac Man frog. In later years The Frog Ranch subsequently attempted to develop the frog to the point that it would not require a carotene deficient food in order to retain its blue like color into adulthood.

During this span of time The Frog Ranch was simultaneously working on developing the Albino Horned Frog. As of the Albino’s introduction in 1992, the demand for the frog was so strong that it required all of our time and as a result the Turquoise Horned frog project was abandoned. Although we still see descendants of the turquoise frog in our breedings, we believe it would not be proper to represent this frog as “blue” when it has not been developed to a point that it retains its color into adulthood without the use of a specially prepared food.

There are a lot color morphs on your website that I’ve never seen offered for sale even though they have already been introduced. Why?

Unfortunately many American distributors and suppliers are reluctant to offer new color morphs as they are often expensive and unproven sellers. The opposite is true with overseas buyers that are eager to try new and different color morphs and frogs. As a result, many of the color morphs are slow to enter the American market and are usually shipped to other countries.

In response to this problem we are currently evaluating the viability of an e-commerce web service for the retail market. After all, what good are new and exciting frogs and color morphs if they are not readily available to the American hobbyist? Please e-mail your comments and suggestions regarding the expansion of our site.

Why are Apricot and other color morphs from your company so much less expensive than some other breeders? Are they inferior?

For over two decades The Frog Ranch has been the world’s leading amphibian propagation, conservation and research center; as well as the largest commercial supplier of frogs to the world market. “Breeders” that have surfaced in the past several years have “inherited” parts of our gene pool and have worked very hard to represent them as their own by promoting them on websites and vending at reptile trade shows throughout the country.

To their credit, some have been successful in their venture. They have been able to create a “perceived value” by artificially inflating retail prices to the public. For some individuals, this creates a false sense of superior quality, when in fact the genetic strains originated from The Frog Ranch.

Our focus is to supply the highest quality amphibians through traditional distribution channels, in order to provide a large, readily available supply to the general public, at the lowest possible prices.