What Do Tadpoles Eat?

Tadpoles start out eating their own yolk sacks. Once that's exhausted they are completely vegetarian, eating algae, plants and other microscopic things in the water. Some say it's sufficient to just keep adding fresh pond water to get more microbes in; fresh live pond plants may be suitable too (especially if they come with their own coating of algae).

When their back legs emerge, within a short period of time they turn into complete carnivores. They will indeed eat each other if not enough microbes/insects/other small animals are in the water.

They quite like mincemeat, but don't leave uneaten bits as it may poison the water.

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Tadpoles or frog spawn eat a variety of foods tadpoles have been known to eat foods like lettuce, fish food, egg yolk and even baby cereal. A tadpole starts feeding a few days after it is born typically when it starts growing legs until which it feeds on its own egg yolk and does not need to be fed externally.

Once it has grown sufficiently it starts feeding on mainly algae if it is in a pond and may even eat its own kind if sufficient food is not available for example in a tank.

Tadpoles are known to eat lettuce though one would do well to boil and freeze any before feeding them solidified egg yolk and fish food can also be utilized. Ideally tadpoles should be fed two pinches of food twice in a day after eight hours taking care not to dirty the water too much.

Also one would do well to change the water only after the tadpoles have sufficiently grown in to froglets, indicated by the disappearance of their tail.

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I own tadpoles that live in a tub in my front garden and they are starting to grow their legs. I feed them sweet corn every 2 days because every day I give them 5 flakes of fish food.

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I got little baby tadpoles, and they are newborn, but I don't know when they should be able to eat other foods except algae.

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Your completely wrong coz i feed mi tadpoles sum thing different, i feed them sea-monkeys food nd there is no plants or other animals in there , i only have 4 nd they haven't eat each other yet from Ashi Gee xxx.

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