Tadpole identification?

[Kurt]

The plants I am refering to are live Java moss and anacharis.

Every tadpole I have seen like this has died. Sorry.

[Crystal6]

The plants I am refering to are live Java moss and anacharis.

Every tadpole I have seen like this has died. Sorry.

Aww. Does this mean I am free to try crazy things like squeezing the air bubble out of him or should I just wait it out?

[Kurt]

That's up tp you.

[Crystal6]

*tries* Yeah that's not happening. He is way too squishy and slippery. (So I am afraid I will harm him and if I try to take my time he slips away)

I'll just put him in an upside down glass with some food stuck at the top so he can eat and maybe let it out on his own. (Wow I have bad luck with Spring Peepers.)

[Bill B]

Crystal, How did you find it? I looked desparately in a wetland where bunches of Sping Peeper were calling here in Michigan, but found none. Are you warm to breed earlier there in Maine? I think our season started about the second week in April

[Crystal6]

Crystal, How did you find it? I looked desparately in a wetland where bunches of Sping Peeper were calling here in Michigan, but found none. Are you warm to breed earlier there in Maine? I think our season started about the second week in April

I didn't actually, someone gave it to me.

But I did find one in a ditch along a railroad track once. (Or more like... several eggs that led to hundreds of tadpoles...)

I'm not sure about the temperature. It seems like the second the snow is gone we have frogs up here. (I've also seen tadpoles in lakes and even deep* puddles.)

[Bill B]

I didn't actually, someone gave it to me.

But I did find one in a ditch along a railroad track once. (Or more like... several eggs that led to hundreds of tadpoles...)

I'm not sure about the temperature. It seems like the second the snow is gone we have frogs up here. (I've also seen tadpoles in lakes and even deep* puddles.)

When did your ponds lose their ice? The peepers started calling almost immediately after around here, and that was early April. They just stopped calling about a week or week and a half ago in that wetland where I looked.

Ask that person how he or she found them!

[Iratus ranunculus]

I have had tadpoles clear it on their own. It is an internal infection called Dropsy, the best treatment is to clean up the tank water and if you want to risk skin damage treat with something like Fishcyline. If he is dead... at least you know for the future. As for identification, the USGS has a comprehensive tadpole key. I could ID him if I had pictures at a full dorsal, ventral, and profile shot.