Long story short. Saved tadpoles are now inside a 55 gallon tank in my house.I will soon have 20-30 tiny tree frogs. The weather is starting to get cold 40-60 degrees during the day and down to freezing some evenings.If I set them free will they survive? I'm a newbie to frogs so take it easy on me.
I use to work at Bowie racetrack before it closed, obviously... Did you rescue the tadpoles from the wild? I never understood people saying you shouldnt return what you've taken?
I use to work at Bowie racetrack before it closed, obviously... Did you rescue the tadpoles from the wild? I never understood people saying you shouldnt return what you've taken?
If they been exposed to other herptiles, then they become potential carriers of diseases. My Tiger Salamanders are all rescues/old fish baits, but I won't re-release them because they been exposed to other reptiles in other people's collection. Last thing I want is a disease to wipe out a local population of wild salamanders from a pond or two.
Probably not,they havent had the slow natural transition from summer to winter and time to find a spot to winter.If you can keep them till spring,if not eat them
I think if you have replies, its probably best not to right now. Im in north VA (Burke), I know it gets pretty cold up here. I volunteer at a nature center, so I would give the frogs to them if I were you but youre not me. If theres one around you contact them. If not, wait till spring, when theyre bigger, hardier, and its not so cold.
If you have other reptiles though, isolate them until you release them so theres no risk of disease (which shouldnt be a risk anyway, but you never know nowadays). Release them in a healthy enviornment, not some backwater pond in the city dump if you know what i mean.
The concern is that the captive native species developed immunity and become carriers of diseases and parasites, when the wild population haven't built that immunity. That's why... it has happened with several native frog species.
