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Baby gray tree frogs, fresh out of the water! I have been raising them for a while now and I’m so happy that they’re finally ready to be released! :D

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Today I met an amphibian friend at the park, the Rana temporaria you see below, and it reminded me I still hadn’t written about what happened earlier this year during springtime.

While I was hiking on the hills north of Glasgow I found a few tadpoles of the same species which looked like they must have been 1 or 2 days old and they were in a muddy, semi-dry puddle right in the middle of the path. Now, puddles and ponds were full of tadpoles in that period, but I wasn’t anywhere near water and I hadn’t raised frogs since I was a kid...so I took them home and set up an empty fish tank we had.

They started growing so quickly because of the higher temperature indoors and the easy, abundant food. It was amazing to see once more these incredible creatures constantly changing, going from tiny black wiggly things to defined tadpoles with see-through skin covered in golden bronze speckles and visible beating heart and spiral gut. A gut they tried to keep always full, resulting in huge amounts of poop.

Then limbs sprouted, first the back, then the front so I lowered the water level in the tank and gave them some floating bark to rest on. At this point they had already been reabsorbing their tail for a while, using its energy, so no more food or poop. And then, it was time to say goodbye and I released all the wee froglets in a burn in my local park.

Moral of the story is amphibian metamorphosis is something almost magical to witness and it’s insane at what rate we are destroying amphibian habitats causing so much loss of diversity. The common frog is a species of least concern at the moment here in the UK, however, it is protected against being sold by the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981, which provides a lot of information regarding the legal and conservation status of the amphibians native to the British Isles.

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Just the most perfect tadpoles

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They growing

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Learning to play basketball on world frog day

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The Tadpoles have tiny silly legs 💚

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Today I met an amphibian friend at the park, the Rana temporaria you see below, and it reminded me I still hadn’t written about what happened earlier this year during springtime.

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