So up here in RI i was checkin out some vernal pools and there are wood frog eggs everywhere in the water, so many, and I also found some marbled salamander eggs, and I caught two paris of wood frogs in amplexus. I couldn't walk throught the pool without 5 wood frogs shooting out every step. I'm gonna try and raise some eggs as practice for my redeye breeding atempt this summer. I'm going back this afternoon to get some eggs/ If anyone would be interested in the outcomes of this I would give them away, if not I'm gonna let them go. Let me know what you think.
Jeff
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Vernal pools ,its that time of the year eggs everywhere
drthsideous
Apr 01, 2004 10:50 AM
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ginevive
Apr 02, 2004 07:09 AM
Cool, congrats on finding vernal pools this early. I predict that I have a few weeks to go before I find wood frogs breeding here in NY. I searched already a few days ago to no avail. I heard a bunch of spring peepers though! I could not get close enough to them without wading through a foot of muddy samp though, and on a 50 degree day that would have been too chilly for me!
I observed wood frog eggs/tads/froglets last year. I found that it is much more rewarding to watch them develop outdoors in nature, than to bring them indoors. This is because I have the opportunity to walk back to the pools every few days, as long as I don't mind getting really muddy, and can drag the boyfriend out in the woods for protection against mountain lions. 
But if you just take a small clutch to raise indoors, it can be fascinating. Just make sure that you can keep the adult frogs that will result. It's often illegal, and always dangerous, to re-release them once you have kept them in captivity; you could potentially introduce some foreign bacteria into their environment. If you don't want to keep the frogs for the duration of their adult lives, it may just be a better idea to observe them in the wild and photograph them.
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drthsideous
Apr 02, 2004 01:17 PM
I don't plan on releasing them I do plan on keeping them, due to the fact of various things that could be introduced. I've also heard the spring peepers here starting to call. At this one vernal pool there must have been enough eggs to fill a 90 gall tank with just the eggs, I'm only planning on taking a handfull.
Jeff
