Tadpoles have established a weak image in our minds since we were young, because we learned about tadpoles looking for their mothers when we were in elementary school. I believe that many netizens have fallen in love with tadpoles since then. In particular, children definitely prefer tadpoles, and they have also had the experience of squatting by the pond to watch tadpoles. We saw groups of tadpoles swimming around the pond, and also saw the almost invisible mouths of the tadpoles keep going. Maybe at this time everyone will be curious about what the tadpoles eat and how to feed them.

1. Tadpoles grow up by what they eat - vegetables

Tadpoles should be fed 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.