"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> > I remember a friend of mine caught a tadpole from this little murky
> > looking pond. Plopped the thing in its aquarium. We watched it grow legs,
> > and arms, and eventually take the form of a frog, then released it,
> > probably to an early death as a road pancake. But it sure was cool to see
> > it change form over the weeks.
>
> We used to start off with 100s of tadpoles in our pond.  I'd watch them
> grow, but mostly I'd watch them getting eaten by the fish.  At the end we
> maybe had 5 or 6 each year that made it to frogs.  One year we tried to take
> out the frogspawn and put it in an aquarium, but something wasn't right
> because none survived.

What did you feed them?
They are half cannibalic. I saw them eat their dead brothers (or sisters).
But normally they are eating aglgea. Ah, better to have some green slime outside
your window. :-)

bluetree

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