lilblack94gt - I feel your pain, it's stressful when you get them all the way out of the water just to watch them slowly die. Once I moved the froglets into another tank, bought some flightless fruit flies (apparently hydei are too big), paper towel substrate, calcium, and all the other suggestions I was given. I even placed an apple in the corner to keep the flies off the frogs, but as it turns out, one of the frogs stayed on it for 3 days straight and the flies were nowhere around it! The most developed ones were out of water for about 7-9 days. I don't know if I didn't give them enough time or they were not interested in the fruit flies, but either way they didn't seem to be eating. Hard to tell when you can't exactly count the flies in the tank.

Since my intention was not to keep these guys, I released the first batch of froglets. I also checked with Ohio law and it states that you must keep any amphibian that you hold for over 30 days to avoid possibly introducing parasitic infections back into the wild that the general population wouldn't be able to handle. So, I figured I wasn't confident enough my methods were going to give them a better chance of survival so I I found a great spot for them to try their luck with mother nature. They all seemed pretty active once I let them out, so in my mind, I am going to continue thinking they are all thriving, eating their fair share of bugs!

Hopefully your two remaining froglets are fighters and are still hopping! Did they ever start eating?