What food does tadpoles eat?
Tadpoles eat all kinds of food. Generally, wild tadpoles feed on mosses, plankton in water, aquatic plants, mosquitoes, earthworms and other animals and plants, but artificially raised tadpoles can be regularly fed with cooked rice, bread crumbs, cooked egg yolks, fish and shrimp.
Appearance characteristics of tadpoles
Tadpoles belong to the larvae of frogs and toads in amphibians. When newly hatched, it is round or oval with lateral organs. At this time, there are no pores in their mouths, and they rely on the residual egg yolk in their bodies to provide nutrition. In addition, tadpoles have external gills on both sides of their heads, which are attached to aquatic plants to live.
Feeding method of tadpoles
Before breeding tadpoles, it is necessary to build a pond in a place with sufficient water, cool water quality and no noise around, and coat the inner wall of the pond with anti-seepage paint. At the same time, the bottom of the pool should be equipped with a drain, an escape net and a heating rod, which is beneficial to the healthy growth of tadpoles. In addition, in the later management, clean water should be replaced every fifteen days.