What Do Tadpoles Eat?

They eat algae, mostly that green slimy stuff you see on top of ponds it has to stay wet or it dries up and they wont eat it, or you can probably get those algae tablet from walmart, for the algae eater fish.

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And be prepared - some tadpoles eat other tadpoles! If you notice this happening, you must remove the meat-eaters and set them free, because they will consume all the vegetarian tadpoles. In the wild, this doesn';t happen so much because the tadpoles spread out, but in captivity, the carnivore tadpoles have no other meat to eat except their brothers and sisters!

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Once you see their legs starting to form as little bumps they will want to eat more protein - that is the time to put a few fish food granules in, or a few little pieces of ground meat, what we call mince in the UK.  If you feed them daily they will not bother their little brothers and sisters.

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