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Offline Julles

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Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
« on: May 12, 2009, 07:33:25 AM »
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.   @O@ 

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
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2009, 07:42:48 AM »
Wow, that's really odd!   :D
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Re: Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2009, 10:45:24 AM »
Julles  will do it right NOW!
I wasabout to ask...
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Re: Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
« Reply #3 on: 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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Re: Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2009, 11:09:53 AM »
Yes maybe they would eat the lettuce is it was old and slimey?  :thinking:
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Re: Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2009, 03:34:54 PM »
Tried it, no results...yet.
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Re: Tadpoles Prefer Boiled Lettuce
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2009, 04:21:28 PM »
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
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2009, 06:43:17 PM »
I will.
They seem fine.  I have some string algae in there too
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