[fishkeeper]

We are left with one tadpole. It resides in a sweaterbox in my zoology class, and the teacher/fellow classmates are getting a neat glimpse at metamorphosis. Due to be a frog in maybe 2 weeks.
For anyone contemplating raising these I've found newly hatched mosquito larvae a great and convenient food for raising these guys once they are about 2 weeks old. Infusoria, vinegar eels, and artemia can bridge the gap.

Here's a technique I've developed.
-get some food scraps(banana peels, old dog food, etc.) put it into a stocking. Tie stocking off and chuck into a 5 gallon bucket of tank/pond water
-to make the mozzies come faster, you can also pour some stew/water from some cooking/cans(use common sense here). I found that the water leftover from canned tuna, dumplings etc. works very well.
-When mozzies come to lay eggs, use a stick to scoop rafts off the surface. Bring with you petri dish with water or similar thing to put the rafts into. Make sure to get all of them, you want to be reducing your local mosquito population, not increasing it!
-You can either float the rafts in the tadpole tank, or keep them in the container until they hatch and then pour em in.
-sooner or later you will miss some eggs and the larvae will hatch. You have a few options
1. Pour off all the water...let the bucket dry for a day or to. start from scratch
2. next time you are boiling something...take the boiling hot wastewater and pour it into the bucket. This will kill all the mosquito larvae and give you a clean slate.