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Actually, I believe, they don't so much "lose" their tail as they have their tale recede. As a tadpole grows it grows it's legs, then the tail gets shorter and shorter till it is nonexistent.
It depends on how healthy the tadpole is
Leopard frogs may live up to 9 years in the wild, although very few leopard frogs will live for this long. Most mortality occurs as a tadpole or newly transformed froglet, when as many as 95% will die.
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8 hours
How long has it been since you got the tadpole? Do you know it's age? Is it really a tadpole? The time it takes for a frog to undertake metamorphosis from a tadpole to a frog is about 24 hours.
50 seconds or less
2 years
15 days
Almost immediatly
The size of a tadpole depends entirely on what type of tadpole it is. For example, the South American frog Pseudis paradoxa has a tadpole that reaches 10 inches in length, whereas the American Toad, Bufo Americanus, has a tadpole that only gets about 3/4" long.