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about how long does it take a pacific tree frog tadpole to turn into a n adult frog?
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the lizards are calling, do you here them?

i am not sure but i have had a pacific tree frog for three years and have been desperate to find another. i found her in a bag of spinach. all i now is that they are the calmest easy to handle and care for frogs i have ever seen.

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Fertilization of eggs is external and a clear jelly egg mass the size of a ping pong ball is laid attached to floating sticks and plants. Eggs take about 3 to 4 weeks to hatch, depending on water temperature. The cooler the water is, the longer they take to hatch.

Eggs are laid in early March to May (later at higher elevations) in temporary ponds where predators such as Brown Salamanders and Bullfrogs do not live or lay their eggs. By chosing temporary ponds instead of deep permanent ponds, Tree Frogs reduce the number of predators that may eat the tadpoles.

After eggs are laid, the parents hop back to open forests and forest edges, leaving the young to fend for themselves. Males can be heard calling almost year round in areas where frost does not occur. Adult frogs feed on flying and crawling insects and other invertebrates. Like most frogs, they will stuff creatures almost as long as themselves in their mouth!

Newly hatched tadpoles are about 1 cm ( 0.5 inch) long and grow quickly on a diet of algae and other pond plants. Their tiny mouths are located on the bottom of their heads and help them to scrape up bits of plant material. Tree Frog tadpoles are greyish-green and their intestines can be seen through the skin on their stomach. Their tail fins are well-developed and sit high on their body. Tadpoles eat a huge amount of food and produce much waste which becomes fertilizer for the pond plants they feed on.

Tadpoles are eaten by water bugs, diving beetles, salamander larvae and adults, and other frog tadpoles such as Bullfrogs.

When tadpoles are about 4.5 cm ( 1.75 inches) long, they begin to transform by first growing back legs, then front legs, enlarging both, then losing the tail to become froglets. This usually occurs by the beginning of September. During the final transformation, the tiny froglets do not eat as their mouth and digestive system is changing from a plant eater to an insect eater. Completely transformed froglets are about 1.5 cm long (about the size of an adult's baby fingernail.) and feed on tiny gnats, flies and mosquitoes at the pond edge.
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Richard
AKA
"spent change"

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1) pacific tree frog "spinach frog"
2) green tree frogs

Well all but three of the eleven tadpoles have changed into the smallest cutest frogs I've ever seen. Their heads are huge and they sure fill up there mouth; they eat like mad
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the lizards are calling, do you here them?

did you find them locally. i am going to try to order some in the near future.
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Richard
AKA
"spent change"

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1) pacific tree frog "spinach frog"
2) green tree frogs

local to me or you?
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the lizards are calling, do you here them?