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Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
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Just about every website you go to about raising tadpoles says to give them boiled lettuce. Well, I thought that's a little odd, since there is noone out in the woods cooking up greens for tadpoles living in the wild.
So I experimented. I gave them some regular lettuce, nice and fresh, last week. That lettuce is still in the tubs, and it looks like the only things eating it are snails.
Next I cooked some lettuce in a small amount of water, and fed that to the tadpoles. Voila! They LOVE it! A minute after I put it in, there are scads of tadpoles swarming all over it.
I hope they grow big and fast. Would be nice to have them out of my tubs and into my garden.
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Re: Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
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Wow, that's really odd!
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Re: Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
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Julles will do it right NOW!
I wasabout to ask...
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Re: Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
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May 12, 2009, 11:05:28 AM »
It is probably similiar to decaying lily pads. Have you ground up some floating koi/goldfish food? That is what I feed my tadpoles.
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May 12, 2009, 11:09:53 AM »
Yes maybe they would eat the lettuce is it was old and slimey?
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Re: Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
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Tried it, no results...yet.
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Feed them a piece of Watermellon rind!!! They love it!!! They actually dig themselves into the white part!!
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Re: Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
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May 12, 2009, 06:43:17 PM »
I will.
They seem fine. I have some string algae in there too
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