Tadpole to gray/green tree frogs - help

[Greywolf4745]

Hello and thanks for viewing my post.

About 2 1/2 months ago I was removing the cover to my pool because I needed a new liner installed and noticed a lot of tadpoles swimming around. I didn't have the heart to suck them up with the pump so I went out and bought a 20gallon fish tank and rescued as many as I could. I will say that the past few months of watching them transform has been very interesting and I began seeing frogs about 3 weeks ago. I have done some reading on them I realized I needed to remove them so I bought a 10gallon terrarium and began moving them over as they climbed out of the water.

I now have about 20 in the tank and there seems like there is plenty of room but I am assuming that there should only be X amount for this size tank. I have been buying fruit flys and recently began buying small crickets online so I can be sure they eat ok. Other than the little bit of reading I have done I know nothing about frogs. My goal was to keep them long enough so they can grow and then release them in a nearby park. I have grown fond of them as it is pretty cool to see them come up from a tadpole but I don't want them to die either. My tadpole rank still has about 20 of various stages so I am concerned about getting to many and causing all of them problems.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am in Baltimore, MD and I believe they are gray tree frogs although some are green. They are all about the same size and less then an inch right now.

[ColleenT]

if you were going to release them it should have been before now, but the fruit flies and crix are good. while they are small they might be ok for a while, but the bigger they get, the more they are competing for food and space. i would try to find homes for most of them. you can keep 2 in the 20 gallon as they are older, and i would tip it on it's side for height. there are conversion kits are Junglebox.com

[Greywolf4745]

if you were going to release them it should have been before now, but the fruit flies and crix are good. while they are small they might be ok for a while, but the bigger they get, the more they are competing for food and space. i would try to find homes for most of them. you can keep 2 in the 20 gallon as they are older, and i would tip it on it's side for height. there are conversion kits are Junglebox.com

So it's too late to release them? Not sure where I am going to find 20 takers for frogs in my area. Should I release the new frogs from the tadpole tank as soon as they start climbing? I was looking at some larger, taller, terrariums 36x18x36 but I do not see buying a larger tank if it would not house but a few frogs. If I should only house 2 in a 20gallon tank I am guessing it would not be many more in that tank.

i still have about 20 or so tadpoles so please let me know when I should release a new frog as I don't want to try and find homes for another 20.

[LilyPad]

I disagree, I would release them in the area that you found them. They are small enough that they should adapt and I doubt it's too cold yet by you.