We had quite the celebration. We cooked some good hot dogs on the grill and after dusk everyone celebrated the graduation with fireworks, totally not because it happened to be the 4th of July.

We even had a guest of honor (that was the guest of honor whether he wanted to be or not.)

On a more serious note I knew after they got their front legs out, the day would be soon upon me. It's both a happy and a sad day. Sad to have to let them go after raising them from tiny tadpoles to froglets; they felt like members of the family. Happy that they made it to the point that they can take care of themselves. I of course knew from the start that they would be returning to great outdoors to start the next chapter of their lives. My objective was to give them a chance to survive and grow as the ditch they were rescued from would have dried up (and it did) long before they could get to the stage that they could survive without it. I'll pray that they may be safe and prosper.

I would have liked to keep one or two of them for a bit longer and watch them grow, but I'm not sure what exactly they would like that would be small enough for them to eat, but also not easily escape the containers. If anyone has any advice on what to feed them as froglets, I would be most appreciative as I could give it a try when the younger members that are still tadpoles become froglets. From my reading, when they enter the froglet stage for the first few days, they mostly consume their trails for nourishment.

Some notes and observations:

They may not be green tree frogs, but they can still climb pretty well. The ones that had containers to themselves (The Lone Ranger and Bubbles) were a bit larger than the Three Amigos that were all in one container.

They grew from tiny tadpoles to froglets in around two weeks.

They really seemed to like the Romaine Lettuce mush. When they got older, they also really took to the crushed turtle food.

They did fine without me having to blow bubbles in the containers to additional oxygen.