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Want to know what the tadpole feeding? Frogs are quite common pets, and small children like them a lot, and even more so if they are small tadpoles.
Having a tadpole with children at home is a great opportunity to teach them to be responsible for an animal that is easy to care for. And to start with your care, you have to find out in this PeritoAnimal article what tadpoles eat.
how is a tadpole
You tadpoles they are the first stage that frogs go through at birth. Like many other amphibians, frogs undergo a metamorphosis, from hatching as small larvae to becoming an adult frog.
When they come out of the egg, the larva has a rounded shape, and we can only distinguish the head and, therefore, they do not have a tail. As the metamorphosis progresses, it develops the tail and adopts a shape identical to that of fish. Your body gradually undergoes changes until it becomes a tadpole.
Frog tadpoles may even remain in the water up to three months, breathing through the gills provided at birth. It is normal for the tadpole to pick up something in the aquarium for the first few days and keep quiet, as it will start swimming and eating later on. So it may be that on these days you eat some of the food that you have inside, then starting to eat what we will explain to you below.
Tadpole feeding
First of all, if there is something we should take into account in relation to tadpoles, it is that they should stay underwater until his paws come out. Under no circumstances should they get out of the water before, as they could die.
First days: herbivorous phase. When they start to move, after having spent those first few days clinging to any part of the aquarium, they usually eat a lot of seaweed. This is because, in the beginning, tadpoles are mostly herbivores. Therefore, in these first days, it is normal for you to have the aquarium full of something and to let you enjoy your first days swimming and eating. Other foods you can give him are lettuce, spinach or potato skin. This should be given, like the rest of the food, everything very well crushed so that you can eat and digest it without difficulty.
From the growth of the paws: omnivorous phase. After the paws grow, they should start to vary their food, once will become an omnivorous animal. As it is difficult to give them food that they would eat if they were free (phytoplankton, periphyton,...), you will have to replace this food with other options like these:
- fish food
- red larvae
- mosquito larvae
- earthworms
- flies
- Aphids
- boiled vegetable
It is important to remember again that must be all crushed. In addition, the vegetable should always be boiled, which can help prevent indigestion, gas and various stomach problems. Tadpoles are like us, if you don't give them a variety of food at the end, they can suffer from problems.
How many times should you feed them a day?
tadpoles must eat twice a day in small amounts, although depending on the type of frog this frequency may vary. In addition, as with the feeding of other fish, we must remove the food if there is no food and we must also not add too much to avoid dirtying the aquarium.
And here's our little guide to tadpole feeding. Now, as always, it's up to you to help us complete this article. So, be sure to share with us what you feed your tadpoles and if you've tried other things. Comment and give us your opinion!
