I had some tad poles that I kept in a fish bowl and when I came back from my 2 week vacation there were some frogs sitting on my table and I think they ate my tad poles.What can I do to prevent this from happening?
2007-05-30 03:09:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
I believe that while you were gone, your tadpoles turned into frogs. It doesn't take long for them to grow. Think about it.. Frogs eat flies and insects.. Do you really think that they would eat tadpoles?
2007-05-30 03:14:24 · answer #1 · answered by tubagirl331 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Chances are the tadpoles metamorphosed into adult frogs. You can't keep the metamorphosis from happening, but you can slow it down with cooler water temperatures.
DON'T release the frogs into local bodies of water, UNLESS it's where you found the tadpoles or frog eggs that you were raising. If the tadpoles were bough, they're most likely not a native species to your area. This can create a problem for them (in terms of temperature and disease/parasites to which they have no immunity) and possibly to the native wildlife in your area (in terms of being eaten and/or habitat displacement if your frog is larger and/or more aggressive).
If you want something that will stay in your tank, consider getting an African dwarf frog (suitable for tanks under a foot tall, safe with fish), or an African clawed frog (gets to the size of a baseball, not safe with fish). Both are completelt aquatic, although their tank should have a cover to prevent "jumping out".
See this on African dwarfs - there's a link within to a page on African clawed frogs: http://allaboutfrogs.org/info/mypets/dwarfs.html
2007-05-30 08:25:07 · answer #2 · answered by copperhead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well what happened was your tadpoles grew in frogs.
It takes and average of about 3 to 5 weeks for tadpoles to grow into frogs. Then they just keep going till they croak for the final time. If you just want to raise them you can release the frogs after they have grown in swaps rivers or even take them to a shelter and ask what they want you to do with them.
Good luck!
2007-05-30 03:36:07 · answer #3 · answered by xXLiTtLePuPpYXx 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The plague of frogs. Moses? I understand you no longer desiring them interior the living house. I even have got here across hundreds of toddler toads and a few adults in my backyard, and a pair are becoming to be interior the living house. I in basic terms p.c.. them up and positioned them back outdoors. They consume such somewhat some bugs that i do no longer innovations having all those toads around. I actually have a huge fat one that sits on the front hunch at night. I constantly say hi and herd him down into the flowerbed.
2016-12-12 06:19:40 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a fact of nature that tadpoles change into frogs. There is nothing you can do to prevent this from happening again.
2007-05-30 03:16:40 · answer #5 · answered by fishbarn 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
haha I think your tadpoles turned into frogs!!
2007-05-30 03:15:24 · answer #6 · answered by austin787042002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to be kidding me! To even ask this question. Maybe you should go away for another two weeks and see what you come back to.
2007-05-30 03:19:36 · answer #7 · answered by Lost in Maryland 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what were u expecting ur tad poles to turn in to??? gorillas???
2007-05-30 03:19:56 · answer #8 · answered by AJ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
BECAUSE YOU ARE A BIG TOAD.
2007-05-30 03:36:21 · answer #9 · answered by ATDOTC 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋