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Hi,
I have now aquired two adult grey tree frogs and 9 tad poles. We fixed our pool and when we were changing the liner we got the 9 tad poles and then we could not keep the adults out of our pool. I tried for four day(nights) to remove them and put them in the woods by the creek and they kept comming back. I was afraid that the cemicals in the pool would harm them. So now I have them in my home. They are eating well and croaking. I am not sure if I have a male and female or two males. The one has a very dark,almost black throat and seems to be the one that croaks. The other one has a white throat but it is darker than its belly. They do seem to be different in size. The one with the dark throat is smaller. when we got them one was grey and the other a beautiful green. now they are both grey/green. I have them all in a ten gallon tank- tadpoles are in a container of water in the ten and am getting a 45 tall octigon tank that leaks from a friend to put them in. I can not seem to find information just on them. I would like to know about the care of the tadpoles as they are getting bigger and I am not sure what they eat after getting their legs. I was thinking tiny tiny crickets. Any information you can provide would be greatly appreiciated. Oh, I read that they do hibernate in winter, if they are in the house will they or do they need to and if they do, do I need to move them somewere cooler that my house for them to hybernate?
Thanks, R

Scroll down to my July 6th post/pic

For tads, I use a medium/small critter keeper, aged water, Penn/Plax Clear Free cartridge filter. I went the "natural" route complete with decorative sand/river rock bottom & a few aquatic plants from capture site. I made 25% water changes every few days. I vacumed excess waste w/ a turkey baster. This however is a higher maintainance set-up which duplicated their natal pool.

I alternated feeding them frozen spinach pieces & algae wafers made for fish.

2 have morphed & 3 are coming along fine.

Here's one who morhed a few days ago...

Here's one who morphed a few days ago...

Pic of Gray tree frog tad rearing tank. Maintained since June 16th.

H. versicolor just developing rear limbs

H. versicolor morph 2

Congratulations Tom. It looks like you have cracked the code on these critters. I remember the first time you set out to do this. As I recall we couldn't find anyone who had any guidance to offer (including me), so you must have worked it out on your own? Excellent work.

Henry Capobianco