I just noticed about 50 tadpoles swimming around in a small pond in my backyard. What do they eat?
2006-07-23 04:27:55 · 7 answers · asked by Hot Stuff 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
They eat almost anything you can think of: bacteria, letuce, algea, insects, fish food, feeze-dried flys, freeze-dried tubefex worms, and, to an extent, eachother.
If there's any dirt or rocks in what your keeping them in, they'll eat some bacteria off that. But they still need fed. If there's no algea, you can find fish food, feeze-dried flys, and freeze-dried tubefex worms at a pet store.
But one of the best foods is lettuce. It'll go bad and make the water icky if you give it to them fresg, so try this: Boil it (so it's easy for them to break apart), drain it, then stick it on a pan and freeze it so it stays fresh longer. Estimate your number of tadpoles and break off about a square inch of frozen lettuce for every 10 or so tadpoles. Store leftover lettuce in the freezer.
Keep in mind, if the tadpoles don't get enough food, they'll try to eat eachother. If their envoroment is to crowded, they won't be able to find food and they will die. If a couple do die, the others will eat them.
2006-07-23 04:31:07 · answer #1 · answered by eastern_mountain_outdoors 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if the tadpoles naturally occured in the pond, their food should be good (they mostly eat algae). but if you feel like feeding them, buy regular lettuce, boil it, and then after drying cut finely. place the lettuce on wax paper in the freezer (seperating as much as possible). when the lettuce is frozen, place it into a bag and keep it frozen until dinner time. i fed mine (seven in a fishtank) about one pinch in the morning.
2006-07-23 16:36:04 · answer #2 · answered by Alison B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have tadpoles as a pet you can buy a small container of pellets called "frog bites" at the pet store, its for tadpoles and aquatic frogs alike =)
2006-07-23 17:01:29 · answer #3 · answered by laa dee da 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 time i cought some tadpoles and put them in my wading pool and i feed them some of my fish food and it worked...
if that doesn't u could just serch on google
2006-07-23 11:32:44 · answer #4 · answered by .:$ara:. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought they ate mosquito larve, but I might be wrong.
2006-07-23 11:31:08 · answer #5 · answered by pamela_d_99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plant matter mostly. Algae also.
2006-07-23 11:29:07 · answer #6 · answered by xoil1321321432423 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ask the vet
2006-07-23 11:58:24 · answer #7 · answered by fil-am_singer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋