Tadpoles

[carla]

What do you feed them? I've been giving ours fish food, but them seem to be eating the dead ones at the bottom.

It's quite normal for them to eat the dead ones. Known as recycling.

If you have a pond, I would just replenish their water with water from the pond. Has all sorts of little things in it which the taddies eat. We do give ours fish food too, but not very much.

Slugs! They go mad for them.... drop a slug in the water and watch them tear it apart! I used to kill them first by squashing them with a stone..... that somehow seemed more humane than just letting the tadpoles eat them alive!

Well don't give them chicken!!!! I'd been feeding ours lettuce ( as well as pond water) which they were definitely eating ( I did a search on google as to what to feed them - it said rabbit food or salad) but my brother claimed to know better so when he came at Easter he gave them raw chicken - which they devoured with gusto - next day they were all dead!!!!
LUCKILY I had a few outside in a bucket that I could quickly swap into the inside tank so dd is blissfull unaware of the massacre.

Isn't it illegal now to collect tadpoles?

Don't tell me that it's now NOT PC to collect tadpoles .....???

Is this helpful?

Something to do with reducing frog stocks?

well we found two frogs meandering up the road and just diverted them to our garden pond - that's not so bad surely?
anyway, try tying a piece of red meat onto a bit of string and dangling it in the pond - they go mad for it - gruesome
don't forget to leave a stone for them to climb out onto once they get legs, otherwise they drown (sorry, not meaning to sound patronising )

Thanks lou for that ... but ffs mears, had we left them in the pond they'd just get eaten by the fish. Where's the logic? Not a slur against you at all (you know I'm not like that) but where did you here that???