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    Question Tree frog eggs?

    On July 23, I found some small frog eggs in my uncle's fish pond. I, being the unprepared idiot I am, didn't bring a camera to take a picture of the full egg mass. I'm going to do my best to describe them: I found the eggs floating and looked very fresh. It rained the entire morning and I found them in the afternoon when the sun was out. They were a loose raft of eggs that was in very shallow water between a rock and a fallen log. The raft would break into pieces of about 30 eggs (I collected about 30 and they were easy to separate). Each egg had an inner envelope, like most frog eggs do. The embryos seemed really small in comparison to the green frog eggs that I had before. Here is a picture of the eggs I collected next to a ruler:
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    After a day, they started to become comma shapes with tan bellies (the green frogs looked all black) They hatched today, July 26, and look like this:Name:  image (2).jpeg
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    Then yesterday evening some started to hatch:
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    I just want to know if these are tree frog tadpoles, and if not, what they are. If they are tree frogs, they would have to be Cope's greys or grey tree frogs. We don't have any other true tree frogs around here.
    I guess I'll keep updating about these guys once they actually look like tadpoles and not like little alien pods. Its easier to tell what species a tadpole is once its bigger than half a centimeter and has a definite head and tail, don't you think?

    (And yes I know my camera is terrible. I took these with my phone indoors.)

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    Default Re: Tree frog eggs?

    Wish I could answer. Grey's are relatively small so it might be those. Then again tadpole size might not indicate full grown frog size especially so early.

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