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What would I do?
Never take on an animal that I don't plan to keep, or respectfully re-home. If I do rehab or catch/release, I follow strict guidelines, involving NEVER mixing wild and "captive" or "pet trade" creatures. If any animal becomes sick, deformed or disabled, it is treated by a professional (and given a clean bill of health) or it is not released at all.

In the case of the tadpoles I have (10-ish toads, 4 ranids)?
I've taken on a small enough number to either care for all of them myself, or offer them to other local keepers with a similar level of dedication. I would suggest that you contact local REPTILE-specific stores (if you have them) and tell them that you may have excess (XYZ breed) toadlets, which you are looking to ethically re-home. If they aren't willing to pay, ask if they're willing to trade for crickets/supplies. If they aren't willing to do store credit, offer them for free. Offer the same deal/s to local keepers.

Here's the other thing: Some people don't care, and irresponsibly contaminate the environment. It's horrible, it happens on a daily basis, and sometimes does enough damage to really get some guts in a twist (re: snakehead, piranha, introduction of malaria). It's up to each person to decide if they wanna be a "good guy" or a "bad guy" or a "chaotic neutral" guy. Ask for advice, follow it, don't follow it - it's ultimately on you.
Frankly the only thing they have gotten was those gill worms. It turned out to be gill worms. It apparently was through the pond water. I killed them off via a few medications intended for fish. But works just as good on amphibians. Because it's a pretty strong dose to begin with. Secondly they're in the aquatic or where... and they had opening gills as well as mouth parts and a permeable skin. meaning better absorption of the meds. I do recall seeing some of the dead worms too when I did that water change. I'ved treated them with medications intended for fish but mainly intended to kill parasites, bacteria and such. Even ones made for turtles that are supposed to kill stuff thats pretty nasty.

I'm thinking of just selling them off to a few petstores I know and the rest I can see if some friends want them(they're okay with caring for animals-- I visit). As well as I can sell some online. And ill keep a small amount for myself.

I guess it's not that bad of a thing though... Least I learnt something out of it as well as gained some more experience with delicate beings. I hear tadpoles can be delicate.. Not so sure on that-- since the whole worm thing got me thinking--- how the heck are these delicate?

They never came in contact with anything captive or from a petstore. The most they came in contact with was some pond snails that I gathered from the very same pond/creek in the very same day I gathered the adults. The adults never came in contact with the captive bred toad. So yeah. Pretty sure they don't got anything. I figured I could release just a small amount of them back if anything. Right where I found the parents. A great deal of them did survive though as well as a great deal did hatch. Only 50-60dead taddies died out of the ones that hatched. Atleast a 3/4ths hatched the other ones just turned white and I had to remove them.

Btw filtration does work for taddies if you have it set on low and you're taddies are big enough atleast the size of a dime. Not one got stuck in the filter. Because I put a sponge in there too to make sure nothing sucks it up.