I have both indoor tadpoles & outdoor tadpoles. I got all the tadpoles from the same batch & seperated them, the indoor ones seem to be growing a lot quicker than the outdoor ones. I feed them both the same things; lettuce, grass, pond weeds, apple, fish food etc. But the indoor ones that are mostly in the dark seem a lot more healthier than the outdoor ones.
you can feed them ants dead or alive. keep them in water you can take some from a pond
they can eat gold fish flakes make their home shaded and like a pond a cage will not work they can slip through the gapes.
Here's what you need to know for dealing with tadpoles yourself.
Be sure it has good shade---about 3/4 shade is ideal.
If you are planning on having a frog pond, be sure there are no Oleanders, Pine trees or other poisonous plants near it! The fallen needles and leaves can be toxic to tadpoles.
If you take the water from a local stream, creek or pond, be sure it isn't polluted. Ideally, you can get it upstream from any suspected sources like factories, sewers, etc.
If using tap water, let it stand exposed to full sunlight for 5 to 7 days. This will allow the Chlorine to be removed by evaporation.
If you don't have that much time, you can buy de-chlorinating drops at your local fish-carrying pet store. But at least leave the water out overnight, even after using the droplets.
Even a little chlorine is deadly to tadpoles.
It is always a good idea to keep a little de chlorinated water on hand.
Well, I hear they LOVE lettuce. Boil the lettuce for 10 to 15 minutes and then drain it. Chop it up a little, and then you can lay it on a tray to freeze it. For average home ponds, use an icecube tray- 1 cube every couple of days should be enough. For smaller tanks, just lay some flat on a tray and freeze it, and keep it in a baggie in the freezer. Give the tadpoles a pinch every few days.
Remember: too much food will get the water all dirty, and too little will make the tadpoles get nutty and go after each other. If your water gets dirty really fast, slow down on the feeding...and be sure to replace the dirty water with some fresh spare water.
But it is also temperature dependant, so during cold spells it may take a bit longer or even be suspended till the temperatures go up.
For example, eggs laid towards the end of summer may hatch, but tadpoles may stay tadpoles until the Spring/Summer period. So if it's cold and your tadpoles don't seem to be growing up very fast, it's no reason to panic.
The tilt of the ledge may be important depending on what type of frog you have. Young tree frogs can climb smooth vertical surfaces such as the plastic pond liners and glass, but the ground dwelling frogs will need a rough slope when the time comes to climb out of the water.
At this point, if they aren't big enough to eat crickets but are too large to eat lettuce, you can try starting them off with small insects. A good substitute is bloodworms (live is best) which are usually found in pet stores that carry fish. You can try feeding them to the frogs by taking the lid of a jar and turning it upside down. Fill the cap with a bit of warmish water and lay a bunch of the gross wiggley worms in and usually the frogs will find them. Or you can put the worms directly into their water...
One Frogland visitor writes, "Also, in addition to crickets and meal worms, I have found that in the froglet/young frog stage, aphids are a good food source. They are easily found on a certain type of dandelion, so I just snip off a stem and place it in the cage, and the tadpoles have a feast!"
In tanks, the same rules apply as for full grown frogs. Afterall, even if you're not a frog predator, they still like to hide under plants and rocks when they can!
I found a tutorial at the link below on how to care for tadpoles - see link .
clean their water everyday and feed them the right amount at the same time(s) each day
You need a good sized area for them, you can use out door ponds or a fish tank. I feed mine fish food flakes and sometimes spinach, you can feed them this and boiled lettuce aswell
Make sure that it is moving, and that they are eating and.... pooping
They do not it is not healthy for them.
It depends on how healthy the tadpole is
tadpoles
so that they can grow in a nice healthy way
Fish and Birds and other Amphibians will all eat tadpoles.
i don't know where in Manchester but you can get some in ponds lakes rivers etc. also online they can ship them to you in kits or just tadpoles.
How do you know they daydream? They most probably don't.
It is a cloud of tadpoles.
no, it's simply because the tadpoles are to big it's actually the tadpoles who eat the waterboatmen after birth they will eat a plant or to they absaloutly LOVE lettce! so if your keeping them as a pet give them that to eat.Whenthey develope legs they will start to eat waterboatmen and each other so now you know that waterboatmen don't eat tadpoles the tadpoles eat the waterboatmen!
tadpoles are baby frogs so there the same thing there not differ - most terrable answer ever dont listen to this person. i dont know who they are but this answer is not right
They eat fire and basically anything that normal toad/ tadpoles eat . I know it sounds silly that they eat fire but it is true! How else would the get their 'fire bellys ' from? hope this helps! (NOT FIRE probably what normal tadpoles eat.)
some pet stores might.