Tadpoles

[Embers To Ashes]

I just saved four small tadpoles from a shrinking puddle on the road. They are in a ten gallon with dirt on the bottom and on the side with some aquarium gravel so they can get out of the water. 2 have backlegs, 1 has no legs, and one has all his legs. I also have two american bullfrog tadpoles that I put in my fish tank. They are about three inches long. One of them has their back legs, but the other dosn't. Should I put them in the tadpole tank two? I only put four gallons of water in the tank, should I add more? Im worried that the bigger ones will hurt the smaller ones.

 

[Louise E. Rothstein]

They may do more than that:
My greenfrog tadpole ate my guppies before any legs became visible...
And bullfrogs-even as tadpoles-get even greedier than that one did.

 

[bugmankeith]

The bullfrog tadpoles could harm the smaller ones don't mix. Once tadpoles get front legs they stop eating and froglets are soon to appear. The other small ones could be fed crushed goldfish flakes. The bullfrog tads can eat crushed goldfish flakes, crushed algae wafers, boiled romaine lettuce, and some frozen bloodworms.

Might want to put the bullfrog tads in 5-10 gallons they produce a good amount of waste that fouls water quickly without a filter.

Got any photos of the tadpoles you found and the bullfrog fads?

 

[Entomancer]

1) Keep the water cool and clean; add a filter if the tads are large enough not to get sucked in

2) Best food for these are sinking algae wafers and sinking catfish pellets/wafers. Lettuce has little in the way of nutrients. Frozen brine shrimp/daphnia/bloodworms are also really great, and have better nutritional value than the dried ones.

3) Reduce the water level when they develop all four legs, and add somewhere for them to climb out of the water (a pile of rocks is fine, just make sure that it's stable and won't crush anybody).

4) Enjoy your metamorphs. I'd probably just keep one, figure out the species, and then convert the tadpole rearing tank into its new home.