rescued tadpole identification help please!

[metalheadmommy]

Hello all, lifetime frog lover here! My workplace has an in-ground pool that ended up broken late in the season last year so they just closed it and left it over the winter. The cover gathers tons of leaf debris and takes on a lot of water. They are supposedly having someone come out to repair the pool and will be removing that cover this week. All the water will be pumped off and the debris thrown out. There are tons of tadpoles in there. I have already rescued about 40 of them and hope to be able to rescue the rest. I was guessing they are green frogs, maybe bullfrogs. There are two frogs in there too but way to fast and clever for me to get close enough to positively ID them but I think they are green frogs. I need to know what type of tadpoles they are so I can release them in the proper area, so the sooner the better. If I can release these guys today I can rescue another 50 or so. I am in western NY (think Buffalo but closer to PA border) We have a small "frog pond" with green frogs and goldfish and also a larger bass pond with bullfrogs. If they are toads we can let them morph in Tupperware and release in the garden. Any input/help/ suggestions are greatly appreciated and thank you in advance!

[Bombina Bob]

Welcome to the forum ! Your tad are most likely green frogs. Make sure to provide a large enough space for them to swim and you can feed them boiled romaine lettuce or collect algae mats in the water.

[metalheadmommy]

hey thanks! I am actually going to release these little guys in one of my ponds(probably the smaller goldfish pond) the salamanders will get some of them, and I am sure others will be cannibalized by larger frogs but it's nature and a lot better than being sucked up by a pump and spit into the grass to suffocate. I promised my daughter we would see 4 of them into froglet-hood. lol. I guess I better set up a tank for that. I am going to try and rescue more before they syphon that water off. Poor lil froggies. Both of our ponds right now are covered in toad tads but I haven't seen any of these guys in there.

[Bombina Bob]

It's a fun experience watching a frog metamorphosis take place, i remember doing this a s a project for grade two science class Make sure to have a tank setup as you would if you are keeping tropical fish, they can take up to a year to grow into a froglet! I never get toads in the area im around, I wish i could catch some

[UncleChester]

They look more like Wood Frogs, Rana sylvatica. The timing would also seem to support a spring breeder. How long are they?

There's a few tadpole ID resources in this post: http://www.frogforum.net/other-frogs...tml#post221128

[Bombina Bob]

I had suspicions that the tads were wood frogs earlier, Your probably right Brian.