How to keep Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) tads alive

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I've caught spring peeper tadpoles this spring twice - once yesterday and once a couple of weeks ago. Both times, the tads died within 12 hrs. Any idea what is killing them? I have heard that sudden temperature changes can cause their death, but today I even collected some, and they died despite no sudden temperature change (as far as I could tell).

I have been keeping them in the type of container that sliced lunch meat comes in). The tads I had in today were VERY small, so I doubt(?) that they used up the oxygen in that time.:confused:
 
Was the water de-chlorinated?
 
What kind of container were you keeping them in? I'd be worried about oxygen deprivation.
 
Kaysie said:
What kind of container were you keeping them in? I'd be worried about oxygen deprivation.
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Plastic container - the type that lunch meats come in (at least here in the States).

I know at the zoo where I once volunteered, they would keep one or two dart frog tads in a similar-sized container for days to let them mature.
 
Dart frogs are used to being in small containers. Their natural nurseries are in bromeliads.

Try keeping them in something much bigger, maybe with a gentle bubbler.
 
One of my students brought in some eggs and they hatched. Basically I fed them algae tabs, and changed the water weekly. I had a bubbler with a small stone in it. The tads stayed alive for 2 weeks still tads after 3 weeks...it FINALLY stopped raining and got warm so I put them in my pond.
When I changed the water I lost about 2 every change, but I started with too many to count and ended up with still too many to count.
Good Luck!
 
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