 Re: Hymenochirus tadpoles
Epic fail!
Tadpole looked just a week from morphing out...had both front and back legs, and was found dead after a weekend. I did add food prior to leaving and this worked previously. My only guess is that it got tangled in the java moss in its tank...or maybe it simply needed a lot more food at this particular point.
To top this off I lost 2 of the 3 frogs about 2 months later(been in my care for about 4)
So in short. Yes, ADF tadpoles are alot like fish. But they are uncoordinated fish that need to be fed almost constantly!
So major problems I ran into
-providing enough food, and keeping food close enough to the surface where the tadpoles hunted in their most ineffecient manner(mosquito larva worked best...daphnia would probably be good too. BBS worked ok but would need to be in high densities)
-providing food frequently enough.
Maybe I will try again next summer.
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