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I live in SWFL and caught these outside.

Noticed lots of tadpoles, which at their largest measured approximately the size of a dime around at the head area and about 1 1/2" total length.

The tadpoles were black and the froglets would go from brown to tan to eventually a green color. In their brown and tan phase they showed a bright gold line running along side of the body on either side, and as fully developed green frogs they seem to lose the stripe.

I found one ditch with tons of albino tadpoles and collected them to see what came out - have never seen albinos out in the wild.

I acquired some 1/4" crickets but most of them are about the size of the fully formed frogs so a bit difficult, if not impossible to eat! and my fruit fly order arrived dead.

Here are some rough pics - it was difficult to get a closeup of such small frogs without losing focus on my old camera.

Hopefully someone can help point them out and let me know if they are worth anything or not, common or uncommon.

Thanks much! Joe

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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

Joe,

I cant tell what they are from your pics, but any new albino frogs will have value to breeders and the pet market in general.

Take good care of them and try to feed them well, ( dont try to feed until several days after they morph completely )

If you can get some better pics let me know.

Hank

Those look like some sort of Treefrog, possibly the invasive cuban treefrog. I really can't say for certain though. If you kept any and can get photos of them when they are slightly more developed or if you can get higher quality pictures of them as metamorphs it will be a lot easier to ID to species. Somebody with more knowledge of florida amphibians should be able to ID them positively with the photos you've already posted. FrogForum.net seems to have a more active frog community, somebody over there should be able to figure it out for you. They have a subforum specificially for treefrogs.

they are likely Albino Cuban Tree Frogs.

I've had lots of great info and help with these guys over the past week or so.

I heard of adult albinos being caught and sold for $100 or so, and i've heard of getting more if sent to Europe, but rather than try to sell 20-30 frogs and be done with it, i've decided to keep them, breed them, and hopefully be able to sell 10,000 or so next year!

Thanks again for all your help out there!
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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

The last picture looks like a Little Grass Frog, Pseudacris ocularis.
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-Bradley

YOUR A LUCKY GUY! They will be cool no matter what they are. If Cubans be sure to warn buy'ers that their skin secreations can be very bad if you touch your eyes or mouth after touching the frog.(a wizz could really be bad!).Cubans could be an albino that "can" make it in nature if they are quickly spit out by preditors, and they learn not to eat them. Anyway let us know what happens and I'll be first in line to get some! Vic

These have proven to be Albino Cuban Tree Frogs and should be breeding real soon.

A friend Bill Love came by recently and took these pics.

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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin