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Originally Posted by MarinaVanessa:
Toad tadpoles. My own kids and I trapped them from the creek and a neighbor told me they were toads. The plan was to let them grow limbs so the daycare kids can see them and release them back into the creek. We caught 30 of them.

They ended up being tree frogs and there was a small opening on the cover on the tank where the aquarium pump goes. We were gone one weekend and when I got back several had escaped and were all over the house in the ceiling corners, in closets, behind furniture. I had to count the leftover tadpoles and frogs we caught in the house and got all but 4. I left trays of water out and caught another 2 the next day. Months later I cleaned out a closet and found a shriveled up frog. I never did find the last one.

I don't do tadpoles anymore. I stick to butterflies and chicken eggs.