Tadpole Food

[CLOTHEAD]

Morning All

Great excitement! A lot of the frog eggs have hatched and the tadpoles are hanging by their heads off the side of the pond - for some reason which I don't understand.

Question - what can you feed tadpoles with. I've seen some posts extolling the virtues of lettuce and others say meat.. Any experienced Froggers out there??

Thanks in advance

[boxtops]

Don't they just eat the jelly they hatched from, until the time they are big enough to eat little insects etc in the pond? I seem to recall they have to come to the surface to breathe, perhaps that's what they are doing, hanging on?

[tamborine]

they're live on the pond algae....dont add anything or you could pollute their environment.

[snags]

They won't eat 'lettuce or meat' until later. Until then, if your pond is established, they'll be plenty for newly hatched tadpoles to browse on...

[CLOTHEAD]

Thank you all. I can relax - they won't be starving to death just yet then!

[woofgang]

I have used goldfish flake to feed taddies when i hatched them in a tank..you can also get fish hatchling food which is a little tube of paste, you put a drop in the water and it disperses into a cloud of tiny bits if you feel you need it....again i used it because they were in a tank (huge plastic one not a fish tank) and there wasn't algae etcet in the water. You can also ?make ?create infusaria by pouring boiling water over lettuce and leaving the whole thing to sit. You get a fine sheen on the water which is?are microscopic life, you pick up a bit in a straw or pipette and put it in with the tiny taddies

[smurfchops]

How sweet. When they grow into frogs, check the grass before you mow it ... seriously !