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Can Frogs Live In Salt Water?

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Yes?but most of them can't live in salty water because they can't tolerate salt,while certain frogs that live in salty water have urea which is secreted by their body while the other frogs (the one lives in fresh water)don't have urea secretion.
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Most species of frogs except  the clawed frog and the crab-eating frog can not live in salt water .
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Not most frogs-- and also most frogs, even the ones that can tolerate high salt content in water, prefer to breed in fresh water.

So, some exceptions are the adult Florida leopard frog --which is found to live in marshes near brackish or salt water. The crab-eating frog (found in SE Asia) and a certain species of toad, called the cane toad, are known to live and breed near water with high salt levels, and can survive for extended periods with high salt conditions.
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Not all but,some frogs can live in salt water.
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I keep 2 large outdoor ornamental saltwater ponds and have done quite a bit of research on this. The frogs that live in salt water (the ones that live in asian mangroves  like crab - eating frog) do so by excreting urea into their blood stream. They can not live in a salt tank (I have tried even with a separate little pool to wash themselves) they tend to die quickly (possibly from the amount of salt creep that would get into the fresh water pool.) I have had pretty fair luck with keeping them in brackish water, however they only go into the water to feed and spend much time on the bank. A small fresh water pool has always been provided. There are reports from Australia of frogs that live in high saltwater inland pools, however one of the frogs is considered a nuisance species (so is illegal to export) and I have not ever been able to get hold of any of these.
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Yes, frogs can live in salt water. The reason why is: Certain frogs have something called urea in their blood. This makes their bodies almost as salty as sea-water, which allows them to live in saltwater environments. An example of a species of frogs that can live in saltwater environments is the crab-eating frog. That is the common name.

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