Wild Caught Gray Tree Frogs? Breeding them for Captive Bred?

[kueluck]

I'm one who does not agree with taking breeding adults out of the wild. The decline in amphibians is bad enough so instead of taking away, why not put back. Easy solution to this. Wait until they breed, collect some tads, raise them to froglet stag, keep a few and release the other back where you collected the eggs. I did this 2 years ago and had a blast doing so. Collected 50 tads, 3 did not make it to froglet stage, kept 3,
released the rest. I had 3 Cope's but released them back into the wild last year. They did not do well in captivity, always pushing up on top of viv wanting out. Now my neighbor, her Cope's seem to love the captive lifestyle, so I go over there to get my fix. And now we do hear the Cope's calling in the evening. You didn't hear that a few years ago.

[Gentlemangorath]

@Brian I just finished lightly reading the notes on tadpole/froglet raising, and it may be a bit of a project I'll have to find the time for before I actually breed them, but I do like the idea of catching the tadpoles and raising them to froglets/frogs. What about raising them frog froglets as well, since that won't be taking them from the adult male frog population, is that an ok idea?. My suburban hometown in southernish NY is rife with Grays who like to lay eggs in pools from what I understand, and as you may have read in a different post, I try to transfer as many tadpoles as I can with water from the pool before it gets treated, so they grow in what they were adjusted to I guess (correct me if there's anything I can do to improve this btw). As for observing them in the wild, as I live in a suburb, there isn't quite a specific area I know they're in, they're just sort of in and out of habitat fragments (unfortunate but meh, what can be done). After doing the transfer of tadpoles for two years, my girlfriend actually would insist that we go out and see them when we could hear them congregated around the pool in the backyard, and it was quite enjoyable even if it wasn't very detailed.

@Gail Raising the eggs to froglets and releasing them also sounds a really good idea, but releasing them back where I found them is not (that being a pool :P). I would have to figure out if there's a local woody area/lake I could release them in, which I can actually think of one maybe. Perhaps I can go out there sometime when I think the frogs are calling to see what I can find. Thank you for the ideas and advice.