Growing Frogs

A year or two ago Grace and I had the pleasure of raising tadpoles into frogs... It all started one day when I returned to work from my lunch break to find a freezer bag half full of pond water and little squirmy tadpoles sitting on my desk. My boss Lisa had brought them in for Gracie and I, they have a pond full every year.  

Our set up was simple and the process was super cool.  We had a total of 8 tadpoles and they all grew  into frogs and eventually were released into our backyard, I was foolishly hoping they would take care of our mosquito problem caused by the neighbors rank "pond" but that didn't exactly workout.  

We created a tank for the little dudes from an old, plastic apple juice jug that we cut in half.  At the time we also had an aquatic turtle, a Red-Eared Slider named Monsieur Stripe, so we had on hand water purifier and food.  They changed so much day by day, it wasn't too long before they were young frogs and we had to move them outside.  They were in a small water trough in the backyard for less than two days before all our babies were off on their own into the wide world.