Hi!! Your post just has me so excited. First I want to say I used to raise tadpoles and this happened to me once(hence my excitement). You are a very lucky person! So pretty much what happened when those tadpoles were being created is nature said, "Hey let me create something halfway, leave some important things out and see what happens." Obviously you know most of the time tadpoles are brownish, or black. When this happened to me the outcome was this. Out of say the 100 I found, 80 died the first couple weeks. Never even grew legs. Then out of the last 20, 10 more died. But the 10 I was left with were extraordinary. 5 ended up being a mix between brown and clear. (Normally they gain all pigment if they live) 3 of them actually stayed transparent. Somewhere I have pictures where I documented them grow, it was so cool watching them grow from the inside! So when they grew up you literally could see everything inside. And the last two were ALBINO! It was the coolest thing to ever happen!

So I got some eggs out of a flooded field and just expected them to be regular ole toad tadpoles but they're very odd. The eggs were the normal clear jelly with a black dot in the middle. I want to make sure I'm taking proper care of them so was wondering if someone can help me identify them. I've searched around and the only thing I can find that is similar in appearance to them are African clawed frogs. They are almost transparent, I can see their hearts beating, they have a black/brown dorsal stripe. The body shape is similar to a African clawed frog tadpole but they are a bit more round.

I live in eastern North Carolina.

They act very odd most are always just floating at the top of the tank doing nothing. I've been changing the water every few days and they continue to grow. They are around 5 days old and still dont show much interest in the food I offer (Pond fish pellets and shrimp pellets). I dont really see them eat. Never dealt with this species or behavior before. The field I took them from is dried up or I'd put them back to make sure they were taken care of. The puddles there only lasted a day and I got the eggs to 'save' them.

Anyone have any idea what these could be? I cant get a picture where you can see them because they are almost see through and so small.