Tadpole identification help?

[ramble]

Can someone help me out, at least to rule out these being Cuban tree frogs?

I got them from a friend's back yard puddle and wanted to let my kids watch them transform and then we'd let them hop off as they please...but I don't want to think about what happens if they're Cuban and from the guides I looked at, I couldn't be sure. The longest ones are about 1".

I know the picture isn't great, I can try to take more tomorrow in the natural light if this isn't good enough. I'm sure you get a ton of these request, so I apologize in advance for being annoying!

[Paul Rust]

Good grief, if questions were annoying we wouldn't be here.
Hello and welcome to FrogForum!

Tadpoles are extremely difficult to identify. The best thing is to identify the adults in the area where they are found and that is likely what you have.

I can't identify that tadpole in the pic, it looks like too many others. Hopefully someone might be able to narrow it down for you.

[ramble]

I have been looking at all sorts of identification guides and I don't know how anyone identifies any of these with all the variations they have! I tried two more pictures. Their bellies are kind of see-through but are shiny coppery-pink. They are already bigger than the maximum listed for the frogs that have coppery or pink bellies (southern chorus and little grass frog).

I have no hope of identifying the adults since they came from someone else's back yard and neither of us are any good at identifying adults - esp the cuban tree frogs have so many variations in color. I am in Central Florida if that helps. I am going to ask her today if she ever saw the eggs.

[ramble]

My friend seems pretty certain that they are going to be green tree frogs since that is all she has seen in her yard lately. Her husband and I are giving her a hard time about the Cubans so she's busy frog watching at night to see what she can find. We're pretty certain they won't be since she hasn't seen any in a long time.

In the meantime, some of my bigger guys (1.5" or so) are getting their back legs. On some of them, this seems to be causing their tails to bend, almost into an S shape. Is this normal? Are they going to be okay?

eta: I just read it's related to nutrition. Some had a slight curve when I got them but on a few now it's more defined. I feed them spinach and blood worms. They eat a LOT of spinach. Am I doing something wrong?

[ramble]

Update in case anyone was wondering: We now have some incredibly cute frogs. I'm still not sure what they are - the markings look like a leopard frog but the toes look like a tree frog of some kind. I'll admit I am not good identifying frogs but we're having fun watching them morph so quickly.

[John]

They're not Cubans. With quick glance they look to me like some sort of Pseudacris.