Heather at HMSG
New member
Hi - I am more usually on the axolotl's area.......
I work at a school, & we have had a tank of 'ordinary' British frog tadpoles in the Biology Department corridor for a couple of months now - the spawn came from my pond. Although they grew fast early on, because they are inside a warm building, now they have sort of 'stopped'. They have pond weed in the tank & a daily supply of lettuce leaves, which they seem to like.
So far they have no legs & are generally smaller than wild ones.
Can anyone cast any light (!) on whether the cause of this is the complete lack of natural daylight? They only have corridor strip lights turned on daily (but not at weekends).
I have taken many back home as they grew initially, & will take these this week, but we (dapartment teachers & me the technician) are interested to know the actuall cause of this apparent problem.
Many thanks,
Heather
I work at a school, & we have had a tank of 'ordinary' British frog tadpoles in the Biology Department corridor for a couple of months now - the spawn came from my pond. Although they grew fast early on, because they are inside a warm building, now they have sort of 'stopped'. They have pond weed in the tank & a daily supply of lettuce leaves, which they seem to like.
So far they have no legs & are generally smaller than wild ones.
Can anyone cast any light (!) on whether the cause of this is the complete lack of natural daylight? They only have corridor strip lights turned on daily (but not at weekends).
I have taken many back home as they grew initially, & will take these this week, but we (dapartment teachers & me the technician) are interested to know the actuall cause of this apparent problem.
Many thanks,
Heather