tadpoles???

[garterman07]

does ne one feed their wild caught garters tadpoles??? i am wonderin if thats a good idea because mine was wild caught. i had no other choice it was a long story but it couldn't stay where he was or he was toast. but any ways theres a pond not too far from my house and i can get tad poles and small frogs should i feed him those? (the pond and area i am in now is too cold for him to be let go) what should i do

[Boots]

That is a very good question. I had no idea so I did some digging and here is what another website said

Well, I hear they LOVE lettuce. Boil the lettuce for 10 to 15 minutes and then drain it. Chop it up a little, and then you can lay it on a tray to freeze it. For average home ponds, use an icecube tray- 1 cube every couple of days should be enough. For smaller tanks, just lay some flat on a tray and freeze it, and keep it in a baggie in the freezer. Give the tadpoles a pinch every few days.

How to Raise Tadpoles Good Luck.

Jason

[Cazador]

Tadpoles are fine, but they're very fatty. At some point within the next month, you should either start feeding animals with more bone or go to the pet store and buy a small jar of calcium powder. Be sure to check out the "diet" section of the general care sheet.

Rick

[garterman07]

can do m8!!! and i believe he ate 2 of the 3 worms...if not they disapeared in his substrate .... =\

[crayguns]

I overwintered a garter by feeding it minnows from a bait station. This worked fine. Fresh minnows are avalible year round at most bait stations. My snake also ate them thawed out. Garters are related to water snakes afterall.

[adamanteus]

I often raise tadpoles for use as feeder frogs. I am raising a pool full this year.

I feed them on fish-food (which they go wild for), mixed salad leaves and later on daphnia and tubifex.

Once they've changed into frogs I'll feed them on micro crickets a couple of times, then freeze them for baby Garter Snake food.

[Stefan-A]

That's pretty much how I used to raise them as a kid. Fish food and the occasional dead guppy when they got bigger. But I released them once the tail was gone.

It was of course against the law, since the species is protected.

[abcat1993]

What kind of fish food? I ask since: 1. There are tons of different types 2. I used tubifex for my guppies, which makes it fish food.

[adamanteus]

I just use your ordinary, general purpose flaked fish-food.

[Stefan-A]

Any type actually works, the tadpoles can eat anything.