Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[infernalis]

I've never known the tadpoles to be carnivorous even if you overcrowd and starve them. .

Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat

[RedSidedSPR]

... scary ....

[ConcinusMan]

I might point out that the tadpole is dead and decomposing.

[RedSidedSPR]

Isn't it a fish? Or is it another tadpole from that same bunch a taddies? I seriously didn't think they were carnivorous.

[ConcinusMan]

That is the dead body of another tadpole. They're not carnivorous. As I pointed out, they will eat detritus. I could swear I see a salamander larvae right below that body. Now those are carnivorous. They will prey on each other, and anything else in the water. Once something dies, the body begins to decompose, then yes, tadpoles will eat the particles coming from the decomposing body. They do not take bites out of it and they do not eat living tissue. They are merely feeding on cells being shed from the carcass. Detritus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dust mites feed on dead skin and hair shed by living or dead animals. Does that make them carnivorous? No. Tadpoles didn't kill that tadpole and they are only eating cells shed during the decomposition process.

[RedSidedSPR]

Gotcha. Thanks. That's what I thought when I saw it. I did, however, think that they were actually eating that tadpole. Thanks for clearing that up. (I still think it looks like a fish)

[Stefan-A]

They do not take bites out of it

Yes they do.

[infernalis]

Carnivorous is by definition a consumer of meat, no rule states that it must be alive.

A prime steak from the butcher is aged to beak down the fibers, does that make me a vegetarian when I eat it?

Bull frogs and their tadpoles are carnivorous.

When a baby garter slithers into a pool to eat tadpoles, if an adult bullfrog sees it, guess what, wham! baby garter is now bullfrog poop... Carnivorous.

[ConcinusMan]

Nevermind. It's like talking to walls.

[drache]

Richard, I think you're saying they're not cannibals

btw
here's a link to a video on exotic animal rescue that has me and Mikhaila in it for a few moments - mostly it's Sean and Mike - and a few critters
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