A little help please

[Tom Highum]

Wait an article for Frog Forum? A Meet the frog?

[Kurt]

Tom, do you really want me to tell you what you're getting for Christmas right now?

[Tom Highum]

Skis and a record player (my dad sucks at hiding) Ok but remember secrets, secrets are no fun, unless you share with everyone.

[John]

Can you please tell me how deep the water should be in the container I'm transferring the froglets into, this is a photo of our very first froglet

For froglets about to pop or already popped the front legs you want the water end to be just deep enough to cover the froglet's back, and make sure it can climb out very easily or they will drown. If it's a tree frog it should be better at getting out of the water but don't take any chances.

[Kurt]

Well, I hit the books, looked at some maps, and the best I can figure is your froglet may be Litoria citropa, the Blue Mountains treefrog. It does closely resemble L. subglandulosa, the New England treefrog.
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/im...0000+0706+0292

[Tom Highum]

Whoa those frogs are pretty. What is their conservation status?

[Kurt]

Whoa those frogs are pretty. What is their conservation status?

As far as we are concerned (those of us outside of Australia) it doesn't matter. It is illegal to export Australian wildlife out of Australia. Any Australian herp you may have now is most likely a descendent of animals that were either smuggled out to Europe or the US.
The only Aussie frog that ever managed to get smuggled out was Litoria caerulea and supposedly L. chloris and L. gracilenta, though I have never seen either one for sale here.

[Leanne]

ok thank you I'll post more pictures as they develop further

[Kurt]

Cool, then we will be able to make a positive ID.

[Leanne]

Thank you for all you help I've been looking at some sites and pictures on the net also and our tadpoles look a lot like the litoria ewingi what do you think

[Tom Highum]

Kurt my question was more of a is it ok that she has them?

[Kurt]

I don't know off hand, as I don't know what species Australian law allows and forbids.

Leanne, I am sticking with my earlier ID of Litoria citropa over Litoria ewingi, for now at least

[Ebony]

Hi Leanne, They are definitely not Whistling tree frogs (Litoria ewingii). I would go with what Kurt said and knows his frogs.

[Leanne]

litoria citropa are listed on the license I have so I'm assuming if that is what they are then I'm ok

[Tom Highum]

Oh cool congrats. They look really cool are you going to keep any of them in an enclosure?

[Leanne]

if they turn out to be something nice I think I'll have to, but I'm unsure what to do with the rest of them now, as I dont know how well they'll survive in the area we got them

[Kurt]

Too bad you can't send them to us.

[Leanne]

I will have to contact an authority over here to see what to do with them. I'm sure this is possibly going to get very boring for all of you by the time all of the tadpoles become froglets but I'd like to introduce froglet no.2 ( hopefully they'll start metamorphosing more than 1 at a time )

[Leanne]

This is the container I've set up for the froglets to go into from the tadpole tank, and also some photos of the variance between the tadpoles, the photo of the single tadpole is a bit blurry but the red in the body is why I was thinking Litoria Ewingi. There seems to be a variance in the tadpoles could there be 2 different species or are they just at different stages? I know I have a lot of questions so I do really appreciate all of your hepl

[Tom Highum]

Is there a top on that? I think they are tree frogs, they will have suction cups. I would also (if you plan on keeping them) add more arboreal decorations.