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OK, a few months ago, I gave my adult green frog male, and plains leopard frog female, to my friend who has a local pet store; she haad a nice large setup for them, and I was in a financial disaster area. I gave them to her for display, not to sell though. These two frogs have lived together for years in my care, and are the same size (roughly, since the female leo is a bit larger.) and have the same requirements, and come from the same habitat, etc.
Anyway, she cleaned the tank out thoroughly last month and replaced the two frogs into it. Now, the strangest thing has happened. There is a small inchlong froglet in there. It is mainly brownish like the plains leo frog, but it also has an olive green overtone. It has three or four spots on its back, nothing like the overall spotting on its mother.
I guess the reason there are not more froglets, is that she cleaned them out while cleansing the tank, and maybe this one was a survivor; its egg might have stuck to a plant from the tank and gotten replaced after cleaning.
The neat thing is, the only male frog to have been with this female, is the green frog! Maybe it's possible they reproduced together?
I am sorry I have no pic right now; it's on my camera phone and I have not yet figured out how to get pics from it to the comp. If I cant, I'll just take my digicam down to the shop this week and get a pic.
Only other possibility I could think of, is that someone didn't want their tadpole/froglet and dumped it into her tank without her knowing. But this is a very strange situation here, no?
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2.1 Ball pythons: Goblin, Nothing, and Bela
1.0 Boa Constrictor Imperator: Apache
0.1 albino Cranwell's horned frog: Bene
1.0 Tiger salamander: Slasher
1.0 black kittycat, Inky
A bunch of Oscar cichlids, one giant pleco, huge breeding lot of "fancy" (read: deformed) goldfish, and me an' the boyfriend.

Did the woman cleaning the tank notice an egg mass when she was cleaning it? If she didn't then there wasn't one to begin with and these guys don't just produce one egg at a time.
I'de go with someone dropped it in.
Do leos get more spotting with age? I would think that one that hasn't finished metamorphasizing doesn't have all its spots yet, but maybe I'm just crazy...

She didn't notice an egg mass, but there was a clump of live plants that she tossed away and if there was a mass, it'd have to have been on that. I was so mad to find this out; if there were in fact eggs, I would have loved to watch them grow (but then again, I'd have a ton of captive froglets to rehome..)
I am going to try getting a pic of this thing online by the weekend.
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2.1 Ball pythons: Goblin, Ashes, and Bela
1.0 Boa Constrictor Imperator: Apache Fog
0.1 albino Cranwell's horned frog: Bene
1.0 Tiger salamander: Slasher
1.0 black kittycat, Inky
A bunch of Oscar cichlids, one giant pleco, huge breeding lot of "fancy" (read: deformed) goldfish, and me an' the boyfriend.

I'm pretty sure she would have noticed an egg mass. From what I remember (it's been a year or two since i last went "frogging" the masses would be about orange/smaller grapefruit size, and not hidden under anything. If she didn't not see it, i think she would have felt the extra weight. Maybe there were alot of plants that she was taking out at a time and didn't notice?
The pictures will be interesting to see.