handling tadpoles

[danny boy]

hello its me again. ive got a pond full of tadpoles and im being begged to have have a closer look. So i was wandering could i get a clean jar and catch a few tadpoles (with then pond water obviously)? IS this safe for the tadpoles or would i be best just to leave them how they are. thanks for reading

[Dogghound]

Not a problem as long as they are just common frog or toad tadpoles and you only keep them a few hours before returning them back to the same pond.

[danny boy]

thanks mate. Just wanted to check

[tom00_uk]

fine as long as you dont put the lid on,

[dampflippers]

If you have a magnifying glass that helps. Look at the mouth parts.
If you put a little pondweed in you can watch them rasping the algae off the surface.

[Pogo]

I recall at school viewing a tadpole's tail through a, not particularly powerful, microscope and observing blood running through veins in it's tail.