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I was on the prowl for copperheads and timbers in Western Massachusetts this July when I climbed into an abandoned swimming pool to check out the amphibians in the 6" or so of water in the deep end, and maybe find some hunting copperheads. Instead I found a little white tadpole that was resting with its brown fellows in the leaves. I scooped it into an empty water bottle,examined it closely and decided it was a gray tree frog. A few days later front limbs popped out and it absorbed its tail. It developed some pale yellow and blue pigments, and it looks like a dime sized dollop of key lime pie with giant eyes. I used to keep these hardy frogs as pets when I was a kid, I'm really looking forward to watching this little treasure grow. If it looses its green coloration as an adult, which most do, I'm expecting it will be a patternless ivory color.

Enjoy the pics! Try not to be too jealous.

KE

too late, allready jelous. thats a sick little froggie.
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Wow what a find and I cant even find a common green treefrog here in Miami anymore . Go figure.

Take good care of that treefrog if it turns out to be all white there is a market for them and you can easily breed it

Thats a shame about the green tree frogs. Goes to show how effective pesticides are.

I dont think I will ever breed this little critter. Ive got some huge moral issues with the herp trade.

I understand what your saying about moral issues .

Sometimes breeding natives is good. Either way yes the pesticides which are "safe" according to gvmt wiped out canals, marshes,etc

Very, very cool! I heard about that little one from a friend that was there with you when you found it. Glad to see some pics

Well I hate to burst your bubble But here are a few pics of an albino grey i morphed out in 2005. It grew to almost adult and started to call and then all of a sudden one day i found it dead in its tank. There must have been some other internal genetic defect other than the albanism. Enjoy the pics.

Wow, that one looks like a true albino. Mine looks like more of a partial leucistic. I'm sorry to hear he didnt live long. You gave him a longer life than he would have had anyway. Did you find him or breed his parents?

well i have a spot where i find lots of amplexing pairs every year and i decided to catch and have a pair spawn for me i never reared tree frog tadpoles before. So i did and one of the eggs that hatched turned into this crazy little yellow tad. If i can find a pic of the tad i will post it. I let the parents go where i found them right after she spawned so i cant even try to re-breed the parents i didnt notice the yellow tad till they were about a week old and obviously it was too late by then. Im hoping one year i will see a little yellow spec swimming in that puddle where i found the parents. It was such an awesome sight. I'd like to see a pic or two of ur frog when it grows up.

mike

what part of western mass are you from, im from spfld and i can tell you now the best place tp find timbers is over on mount tom in holyoke, just dont get caught by the park rangers youll get in some serious crap, its not that there a-holes its just that timbers are protected in mass as for another good spot to look try worinocco moutnain in russle mass ive found at least 4 copper heads and 3 timbers there. and belive me if you want to another really good place to look is behind HCC ive founf at least 2 copperheads back there and there was a guy from the department of fish and wildlife doing a sensus back there. the best tme to look is may through oct

Dont EVER post locations for pitvipers in new england on a website EVER. I didnt say where I was for that reason. You sound like you have good intentions but that is tremendously irresponsible. Dont even tell your FRIENDS. ONe person tells another person who tells a guy who wants an adrenaline rush. I happen to know where all the known dens are in MA, and not a single one is safe. because of people. Ive found headless carcasses at even the most remote locations.

I get paid to study them and it bugs the hell out of me when even good intentioned people post this kind of stuff on the internet so idiots can find them. even idiots who like snakes kill them by pinning them, grabbing gravid females, disturbing their delicate routines, etc.

Sorry if I come off as mean, but really, we are down to the last few snakes. I work too hard to see this stuff made more public than it is.

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