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Hey, this guy was sitting on my windowscreen tonight. I glanced over - "huh! THAT is a weird-looking moth. Hey! Frog!" LOL ...thought at first he might be a gray tree frog; I've never seen a peeper before, I didn't know they STICK to stuff - but a google image search tells me he's probably a peeper froglet. Are they always this pale? He's fingernail-sized.

Can I feed him pinhead crix & fruit flies? I'd like to make him a small live vivarium with moss & ferns. Are they as easy keepers as my wood froglets were?

He's on the porch in a critter keeper with a screened lid. Paper towel, shallow water dish.

Thanks for looking!
-Kim
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~kimhotep

Where are you located again? Is it possible it could be a Cuban? I only ask because of the faint stripped pattern on the legs. I looks like my little guys.

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Heather

cute, too!
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~kimhotep

Def. a crucifer. Look for the small dark "X" on the back. Andy
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Andy Maddox
Houston Herp Key
The Reptizone

Who are you who can say it's ok to live through me? Alice In Chains

Yeah that's a Spring Peeper.

Spring peeper froglet's color really is HIGHLY variable. I catch them around as bright orange, to dark brown.

I have yet to see anybody report on these forums that they have had good success with keeping peepers. Many, including myself, have reported failures. Just because it lands on your window doesn't mean it volunteers for a life in captivity. Let this one go and keep looking for a gray.
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*Humans aren't the only species on earth... we just act like it.

".the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without
spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)

I agree, let it go and get a captive bred frog. It will survive a lot better.

Like with the wood frogs, red efts, & various small garter snakes which periodically make their way through here, this fellow's stay will be temporary - too short for ferns & moss. The wood frogs got ferns & moss before they went on their merry way But this peeper is even harder to keep track of than they were.

I like to keep a creature through a feed at least, & sometimes a shed (snakes) - the wood frogs arrived as eggs & left as respectably-sized youngsters - but if peepers are as fragile as all that, this guy will go back out sooner. He ate flightless fruit flies last night; pleasant to observe.

I'll send him back out next time we have a rainy night (which honestly shouldn't be too long at all, & probably he won't miss any dates he may have made for the weekend!) I do like to get on a nodding acquaintance with the different sorts of critters we're blessed to live among; I've heard peepers, but all this time have never seen one. I'm enjoying the luxury of looking at him for a short while. I don't need or want a frog per se; I just don't want to miss the opportunity to grok one that's around. I'm much more interested in learning about The Locals, than buying some critter who naturally lives in Indonesia or something, captive bred or not! It's a matter of relevance, that's all

Toads are a different matter. One House Toad *is* necessary. & Henry seems to be doing quite well (if you read the toad forum too, his story there). He'll be moving into a naturalistic 40 gallon soon, as I'll be inheriting another cornsnake-sized tank & will be able shift guys around.

Thanks,
-Kim
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~kimhotep

It might be a peeper; is there an "X" or cross-like marking on its back? I found one of those a few years back, on our garage door of all places, after we specifically went out with flashlights in the woods looking for them, finding nothing and tripping over logs and down hills. Then I find the little guy on the garage door..!
I would not keep it, though. I tried keeping mine for about a week. Though I fed him some pinheads, he completely ignored them, and I let the frog go because I did not want a froggie-skeleton. I would just let him be on his way, after taking pictures of him of course.
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*~Ginevive~*