Tadpoles are animals that many children like. I believe many of my friends have the experience of watching tadpoles by the pond when they were young! We just watched them swimming in the water, and we must be wondering what they eat? Now I will introduce you to the correct way of feeding tadpoles.

1. What do tadpoles eat to grow - vegetables

The tadpole's feed should be mainly plant-based food. Cooked spinach and radicchio are good feeds, but don't overcook and remove fiber. Feed less at the initial stage, and then gradually increase. Feed once a day on a regular basis. It should not be too much, so as to avoid spoilage caused by the residual water in the feed. The residual feed after each feeding must be removed with a straw, and the water should be changed every one or two days. The easiest bait is bread, biscuits crumbs or broken rice, and a small amount of cooked egg yolk can also be given as animal feed. Raising tadpoles at home may be more realistic. The newly hatched tadpoles have poor adaptability to the external environment, and the digestive organs are not connected at this time, and the yolk sac in the abdomen provides nutrition, so there is no need to take external food. Therefore, the newly hatched tadpoles should not be transplanted to the tadpole pond immediately. The tadpoles should be transplanted into the tadpole pond only after the absorption of the abdominal yolk sac is completed, the digestive organs are fully communicated, or the first feces are observed.

Most tadpoles feed on algae by scraping algae with rows of horny teeth in their mouths, but if the water happens to have some carcasses of small animals such as earthworms and beetles, they will also eat in groups. Some species of tadpoles do not have horny teeth, such as the hyla and the hymenus, and feed on plankton in the filtered water. In addition, the tree frog tadpoles are ovophagous, and the female frog will return regularly to lay eggs and feed the tadpoles. In the case of insufficient food, the phenomenon of cannibalism of large tadpoles eating small tadpoles will also occur.

A lot of moss stones will be scraped and eaten when they are placed in the water. If they are feed, they can be eaten until they are soaked (otherwise they need to be ground a little); if the feed is too small, the tadpoles will eat The efficiency of feeding will be greatly reduced. Of course, this requires a little observation before feeding them to choose the appropriate feed. If you suddenly run out of feed, or occasionally want to change their taste, you can choose rotten green vegetables (boiled, not rotten!), so that the tadpoles are easy to scrape. If you feel that it is very troublesome to cook green vegetables every time , you can cook a little more at a time, and then soften into medium-sized green vegetable balls and freeze them. Each time you take one out and put it into the water, after a while, the tadpoles are ready to eat. In this way, the tadpoles can grow up smoothly when they are fed interactively with the feed. ??! Also, the newly hatched tadpoles can be fed with crumbs, rice, boiled vegetables, etc.; after they grow back feet, they can be fed small dried fish, chopped bonito flakes, and shrimp meat , shellfish, etc.

Second, the correct way of raising tadpoles

The most important thing to pay attention to in raising tadpoles is water quality, and many factors that affect water quality include: feeding The number of feeds, the type of feed, the quantity, the frequency of feeding, the layout of the environment... The most direct way to maintain good water quality is to change the water often, but how much? The water is also very troublesome, so it is enough to change the water every 3-5 days! When changing the water, you only need to pour out 2/3 of the water, and then add the aerated tap water to the original position. Ok. It is recommended to prepare another container for water aeration, and after each water change, fill it with water for the next water change. However, the worst part of the water quality is usually at the bottom, and there will be There is a lot of feces and uneaten feed, so when changing the water, it is best to try to suck up the sediment at the bottom to effectively improve the water quality.

Therefore, under such water changing frequency , and then decide the amount of food to eat. Although the tadpoles should eat as many as possible, they should not be given too much at one time and cannot be eaten, which will waste food and easily pollute the water quality. Therefore, according to the number of tadpoles, the amount of Different amounts of feed; observe a little, almost 2-3 times a day, can be eaten within 10 minutes each time, or add slowly until the tadpoles stop eating. If it is raised on a desk, it can also be used The method of few meals often, but the boss does not object to raising it.

As for the number of tadpoles (should be said to be the density of tadpoles), it is best not to have too many, and the feces will increase accordingly. , the water quality will quickly deteriorate; secondly, if you live too densely, it is easy to cause diseases, and your health is not good. If you are raising some large tadpoles, you should raise them more sparsely, and reserve space for them to grow up. Of course, you can also just keep a few, so the water doesn't have to be changed too often!