Tadpole

[MegTheFish]

So I was scooping out the usual dead feeder guppies in the feeder guppy tank, and I spot a tadpole! He was maybe a cm long. Apparently he came in the bag of feeder guppies, and he was just going to be left in there and hopefully he will grow up and we would be able to identify what he is. The thing is, I don't think he'd last long, as the feeder tank, like in most places, isn't the "healthiest" tank, theres always a disease going around. Could he be a newt or some kind of aquatic frog? I was thinking of taking him home, but only have small tanks (1 gallonish) that would be able to house him, with no filteration or aeration, so it wouldn't work out. Of course that would hopfully only be temperarly....

 

[IovaykInD]

I think a tank of water is already enough for tadpoles, all you need to do it change the water. I had bullfrog tadpoles when I was younger, and all I did was feed, and change the water. They turned into frogs in about 2 years and I gave them away.

 

[MegTheFish]

Oh cool, that would be awesome if I could get it, so it would be fine in a 1 gallon until it grows into a frog/newt? Do you think being kept in such a small tank would stunt it? Also, how often should I do 100% water changes? But what would it eat?

 

[prankster705]

1,2,3- I don't know
4- It will eat almost any kind af insect (make sure the insect isn't poisenous) like crickets, mealworms, cockroaches, fruit flies...

 

[IovaykInD]

I fed mine fruit flies, I never did any 100% water changes. I usually do 50% each time. I'd say 3 gallon for a bullfrog tadpole, but I don't know what kind of frog you have. Bullfrogs are big tadpoles, so you probably don't have a bullfrog. It should be fine in a 1 gallon. Keep us posted

 

[-cAtFiSh-]

i had tadpoles when i was little. i kept them in a massive paddling pool

 

[MegTheFish]

I don't have live food though...its the middle of winter, there are no insects.

 

[Synirr]

Newt and frog tadpoles look pretty different, maybe these pics of newt tadpoles can help you determine whether it'll be a frog or a newt?

 

[MegTheFish]

The tadpole seems more "stubby" then long, but maybe its just young? I didn't get a really good look at it, anyways I'm bringing it home today, and I'll see if I will be able to bring it back once it grows up (for them to sell), depending if I can keep it or not.

Edit: Ok, it doesn't look like a newt tadpole, it looks like a frog tadpole, like this:

 

[emma12321]

Hi,

You could feed it bloodworms while it's still small. I got some common frog tadpoles and fed them blood worms and then earth worms. 9 out of 10 turned into frogs and went back to the pond. The other one dissapeared.

Emma

 

[MegTheFish]

I put some frog and tadpole pellets and frozen bloodworms with him, I saw him nibbling on a pellet, he didn't eat it though. Oops, forgot to say I got him LoL.

 

[MegTheFish]

I've done some research and I've figured out that my little tadpole is not a newt, its some kind of frog. According to this site, http/www.whose-tadpole.net/, it is a "Larvae of Green frog complex Rana lessonae, R. kl. esculenta, R. ridibunda" whatever that means...they have a cool kinda quiz thing that you take to find out what kind of tadpole you've got. I've got him in a shallow two gallon bowl, and on Wednesday I'm going to get him a large see-through tupperware container to live in. So far he hasn't ate anything yet, I don't know what to do about that.
What does a tadpole of an african clawed frog, and an african dwarf frog look like? Because I did a google search and I didn't find much, all the tadpoles were really smaller, smaller then my guy, so maybe he isn't one of these?

Edit: well apparently that site I went to is to identify tadpoles in Central Europe, and I'm from Canada, so...LoL.

 

[MegTheFish]

It died

 

[prankster705]

Sorry for your loss.

 

[aardvarkfromspace]

I've seen them come in with feeders before.