Tadpoles

[barquar]

My pond is alive with Tadpoles all hatching these last few day. We have Fish in the pond are they likley to be eaten by the fish.
Barquar

[aeshna5]

Fish will certainly take some frog tadpoles, but toad tadpoles are more distasteful.

[barquar]

Thanks for that Ashena didnt know some were more tatey than others.
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[barquar]

Originally Posted by aeshna5

Fish will certainly take some frog tadpoles, but toad tadpoles are more distasteful.

Thanks for that info.
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[Malcolm Banks]

As a corollary to this, would adlut frogs take tadpoles, even if some were their own progeny?
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[Kayleigh]

I think they might bigger tadpoles eat smaller ones and birds eat them in fact lots of thing do.

Hi Jan..I have tadpoles in my barrel.

[Malcolm Banks]

Thanks Kayleigh, that's the same answer I got from another source. My taddies have a good supply of blanketweed, which may reduce their temptation to scoff their siblings, and their numbers are good enough to withstand the occasional infanticide from the 4 frogs (that I know of) in my pond. I held off treating the blanketweed when the spawn arrived, but the taddies are proving a brilliant bio control - they are clearing it up a treat, and all for free!!
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