Frogs in pool sw florida (leopard, dog, toad, look)

[lilacsnlocks]

Does anyone know what species of frog this is? https://www.city-data.com/forum/sara...rogs-pool.html Sorry the system won't let me post the same photos I posted in another thread so I'm just linking to it so you can see what the frogs look like.

I catch them in the pool and take them outside (pool is in a screened enclosure) but I worry do they need to be near water and if I'm just putting them outside where there's no natural body of water nearby will they not do well? I am in southwest Florida. They die in the pool water if I don't get them out in time. But they seem to love the pool.

[Zoisite]

Haven't a clue. If it had sucker pads on the ends of it's fingers and toes I'd say it has some pattern and color features that make it look a lot like a Cuban Tree frog - they are invasive and their markings vary with age though. But yours doesn't appear to have any sucker pads on its feet, so I think most kinds of tree frog species can be eliminated from your list of prospects. It does look like it has exceptionally long fingers and toes that look adapted to gripping and climbing though. Maybe it's some kind of Peeper frog?

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[Katie1]

When I was a kid living in Fla it Rained Frogs & Fish. Kinda cool. Later as I got older a teacher explained how they were picked up as babies thru evaporation the when it rained fell back to earth.

[gentlearts]

Just a caution….my nieces dog went blind because she was constantly putting her head in the chlorinated pool to catch the frogs. Don’t let your dog do that.

[Parnassia]

There are several possibilities including the northern cricket frog (tree frogs: Hylidae) but many tree frogs have wartier skins. Could also be juveniles of several true frogs (Ranidae) : gopher frog, leopard frog, carpenter frog. Juveniles are smaller than adults. However, true frogs tend to be more aquatic than tree frogs. Your photos aren't the best so I can't tell for sure which it might be. If the frogs don't have a very noticeable "ear" (a disc behind the eye) that can help distinguish which species it is. Can't quite tell from your photos. This might help rule out what they aren't:

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/di...s/frogs-toads/

Amphibians live near and are attracted to bodies of water because of their life cycle. Their permeable skins make them much more dependent on having easy access to water. They live much of their lives near ponds, lakes, marshes, even very temporary seasonal pools. Swimming pools are bodies of water and they've actually ended up replacing what natural wetlands used to be where your house is. It isn't that the frogs are overly attracted to swimming pools per se, but the higher level of humidity in the air immediately over and surrounding a swimming pool may be attracting them to it. Of course, the chemicals can be lethal, again due to that permeable skin.

Do you find more of these frogs in your pool during or after rainy storms? Just as you tend to hear frogs sing during rainy storms...they're displaying to potential mates. Many amphibians tend to more toward water bodies during storms. The drop in barometric pressure due to an approaching storm is a sort of early warning signal that wet weather (the best time to congregate in a pool to breed, produce and fertilize their eggs) is on the way.