I can see the ridge better now that I'm on my computer and not my little laptop. It also appears to have a messed up nose. It could be a northern green frog.
Here's one of my juvies:
Here's the same frog as an adult:
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I can see the ridge better now that I'm on my computer and not my little laptop. It also appears to have a messed up nose. It could be a northern green frog.
Here's one of my juvies:
Here's the same frog as an adult:
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Hi everyone! I think the mystery is solved, I'm also thinking after following some of your leads that this little one is indeed green frog (Lithobates Clamitans Melanota). I think she/he is too skinny as well, but those photos are from the first day we found her. She is settling in and seems a lot more calm even though it's only been a few days. My dilemma is more about what to feed her now. I feed my tree frog crickets, wax, butter worms..but I no longer live in Toronto and the local pet stores here only carry small/medium crickets not pinhead crickets so I search out the tiniest ones I can. There are no stores locally (or in about a one hour range from me) that has flightless fruit flies. I'm sure there re some local amphibian owners who culture their own, but I don't know any. We don't have petco in Canada : ( Petsmart carries, crickets, (only s/m or large, wax, meal and super worms but that's all...Should I try online? But the whole USA/Canada thing is usually complicated with animals/plants etc. I'm not even sure if it would be kinder to let it go into one of my ponds this spring or if a green frog makes a suitable pet. My experience is limited to white's tree frogs and grey tree frogs. What do you think?
I ordered my flightless fruit flies online. I just bought a bunch of them and didn't culture them as the frogs grew so fast they were on crickets in no time at all. Green frogs are a pain to keep as are bullfrogs. You have to really want to care for them to keep them. They eat a lot. As an adult they eat a lot. I can buy 50 crickets and they are all gone within a week. I would keep it in at least a 20 gallon long tank by itself. One fourth of the tank needs to be land area with a substrate the frog can burrow in if they wish. The rest needs to be water as these frogs love to hang out in the water. I put little rock platforms in the water they can sit on. Mine rarely use the land area.
These are the photos I found online... I have to say I'm pretty sure this froglet is green frog (Lithobates Clmitans Melanota) Thanks everyone for the insight. Now, I hope I can fatten her/him up a bit.![]()
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