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.
We also do not use anything on our yard nor do our naighbors i checked but what i do is if i want to variey my pacmans diet i dig outside for worms wash them off and feed them to her she seems to absolutely love them! or you should get a light and put a funnel on it and then wait for bugs to keep flying by it and trap them in it and put them in the tank.... but you best bet might be the worms i hope this helped but if you feel they could handle them selfs in the wild release them :P
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