It's a long story but I am raising quite a few gray tree frogs (I would assume cope's since I am in Ohio). I don't plan to keep any, I am just trying to get them to the point where I can release them into the wild and they will have a decent chance of survival. Most of them are at the stage where their back legs are pretty prominent. I read your extremely helpful fact sheet on these little guys so I thought I was pretty prepared for this but yesterday I found a froglet hanging out on the side of the enclosure with all four legs developed! I put this froglet in another container for some privacy. Somehow I thought it would take a week for it's tail to absorb and that I didn't need to worry about food for a few days. But I came home tonight and the tale is mostly absorbed and it starting hopping around in the container. I tried to find a local supplier of fruitflies and pin crickets but I struck out. I read somewhere that aphids were a good food for them so I spend some time looking for aphids but wouldn't you know I can't find any of those pesky little insects anywhere! So what is the best thing to do? Should I release this one under the cover of darkness and hope it survives? Or wait a day (or a few if I have to mail order) to find food? I did offer it a very little mealworm but so far it has ignored it. Are there any other local insects that I can offer it? We are totally insectide, fungicide, herbicide free so I feel confident that anything I offer would be safe. And I guess the bigger question is how do I handle the rest of the froglets? Do I try to raise them until they are completely developed or release them when they have absorbed most of the tail.
here is a picture from yesterday and today, I thought it might help to have a visual to determine it's maturity ...
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.





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