Tadpole identification help?

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They lost the yellow and now just have the black stripe running from their nose down their side. My money is on Little Grass Frog (pseudacris ocularis?) We have about 25 of them right now and I think a few have already hopped off.

I think I also have some Leopard frog tadpoles. They only have back legs, are a lot bigger and very spotted.

[JimO]

Welcome. Those are pretty cool looking froglets. I was just going to say that if your friend sees a lot of green tree frogs, then there probably aren't any cubans around because the native tree frogs disappear pretty quickly when cubans take over. Not only do they compete for food, they eat smaller tree frogs and due to their size, they could take out even an adult female green tree frog.

Last winter was so cold that apparently many of the tropical exotic animals were killed, even as far south as Miami. My sister-in-law lives in Boca and she has seen a lot fewer cuban tree frogs, cane toads, iguanas, and knight anoles, all of which have been common down there for years.

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Can I show more pictures of the cuteness? I can totally see now how you all get into this. I am having so much fun identifying them and watching them grow.

Why I think some are little grass frogs:


And, interestingly, today I noticed 2 or 3 differently colored ones though the markings and size are similar:



I lost four babies this week (the only ones I've lost), but I am trying to tell myself that is still better than mother nature's odds for the hundred or so that I had.

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Jim, sorry, I meant to say, yes I agree that my friend seems to have quite the assortment of native frogs. She's gotten into identifying them too with our little project. She had to prove her husband wrong that we were raising cubans! LOL

I wouldn't be surprised if we lost a lot of the invasive species during the cold last year, but we also lost a lot of native ones too. We found many dead tree frogs, sadly. Hopefully repopulating the native ones will help keep the cuban tree frogs at bay naturally as well.

[JimO]

It's great what you're doing and I am convinced that any losses you have are a fraction of what would happen in the wild.