Froggie Lust

Factual Questions
1

In my backyard, I have a nice sized lawn pond. Actually, it is two of those silly kits you buy just sorta strung together. We spent a very long time last year putting the damn things in, and they look pretty nice, if I do say so myself. But anyway…There are a lot of frogs in the general vicinity, and it appears they have been committing unspeakable acts involving froggie bodily fluids in my pond. The result is literally hundreds of tadpoles in all different stages of development in my two little ponds. Now, I dont mind the tadpoles. Nature will dwindle their numbers to an acceptable level. But I have captured 3 of these little devils so that my children can watch their development. My question is…what exactly do I feed tadpoles, what should I put in the tank, and, just in general, how do I keep them alive so my children don’t call me a tadpole killer? Kids can be so cruel. Sure sure…I could look this all up myself, but you guys are much more fun than reading a book.

P.S. Part of my population explosion could be my fault, as I found a mating pair in my SWIMMING POOL a few weeks ago and carefully moved the amorous couple to the backyard pond. Yes…I held froggie love in my hands. I am such a voyeur.

2

Well…

We always fed them mosquito larvae. Seemed to keep them pretty healthy.

Of course, I got bored with them fairly quickly, so the real care and feeding went to my sister.

You handled mating frogs? You perv! :wink:

3

Here’s a whole bunch of info.

http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/conmag/1995/jul/jul6.html

Sounds like fun. I’m sure your kids will enjoy it.

4

In my defense, it was either that, or have froggie…umm…stuff in my pool. Now who wants to swim in that?? Forget I asked that. I really don’t wanna know.

5

Whatever you do don’t put tadpoles in with goldfish. My parents did that with the tadpoles I caught when I was four, and when I woke up, there were no tadpoles anymore. Must have been moderately tramatic at the time if I can still remember it.

6

Check out
http://www.allaboutfrogs.org/

for more care info, especially if you want to try keeping them after they’ve matured into frogs. Good luck.