Spring peepers?

[Herpguy]

I can say from experience that every time I've kept spring peepers they were delightful pets. They are voracious feeders, and I've never since seen a frog jump so far and so accurately to get food. They could catch crickets from ten inches away, pretty good accounting for their size.

[LunaDay]

I can say from experience that every time I've kept spring peepers they were delightful pets. They are voracious feeders, and I've never since seen a frog jump so far and so accurately to get food. They could catch crickets from ten inches away, pretty good accounting for their size.

Thanks guys! I really appreciate all of the advice...I have an old 10 gallon someone gave me that has horrible stains on the glass I can't get off. I think it will be perfect for saving taddies!

[Psychotic]

I save frog eggs all the time. Hatching out the tadpoles and releasing them is fun. However I wouldn't keep peepers unless I had a sound proof room to keep them in. They are very very loud. I would only keep a female. They are shy and very hard to get accustomed to captive life though.

[graphicgirl]

We used to have tons of tadpoles in our pool cover (before we got a new one that stretches taut and drains so we don't get the tadpoles anymore)... and I used to feel so guilty pumping them into the grass where the birds would go nuts eating them... so one year I rescued them... they already had legs starting... and got them to froghood... my Mom took them from Illinois to Minnesota and let them go... and now she sees them or their offspring all the time... I forget what breed we decided they were... they were a tree frog... with a bandit mask... and my Mom thinks they are NOT indigenous to Minnesota... so I hope she didn't goof up the ecosystem by transplanting them there... I do love the sound of frogs at night... very soothing...

[LunaDay]

Well, these guys finally came out. They are not spring peppers as I thought. I was actually way off I think. It is a "wood frog". I finally got a look at one today, and found a site where they have a recording of the call/croak/whatever it is called. I do still plan on saving the tads though if they get stuck in the puddles

[Gnag the nameless]

Oh, I love wood frogs. They freeze solid during the winter. It's amazing. And they're so small, too.

I'll admit to you I'm jealous; I have to go about 5 kilometers away from my house to find any frogs at all.

[LunaDay]

My 16 year old son got this picture. I tried and failed. He stood way back and zoomed so it is blurry but here is one of my new neighbors I can hear them outside my bedroom window; I am in heaven.