My mum is a TA in a school. With her reception class we decided to grow some tadpoles. We took a bit of frogspawn from a local pond, and put it in a tank... got tadpoles, and hey presto, we now have a few little froglets!

This is the new tank: water + moist land



And this is a little forggie!









Just thought I would share, hope you like

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aww how cute!
at what age do they grow back legs?
as mine havent yet

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He is cute isn't he! lol

Well, these were eggs at the begining of march, and this is the first froglet, with 3/4 more just about there.

However, they have been kept in water indoors, ie about 19/20C, instead of outdoor 7-10C!! And have been fed a high quality diet, compared with wild pond ones, so thats why they have developed so fast.

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mine are in a foot tank indoors
i have about 20 and they are fed on boiled lettuce and duckweed.
but they are about 4 weeks old and yet have only bumps for back legs

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1 corn snake
1 leopard gecko
1 rabbit
2 rats
4 cats
8 indian stick insects
1 tiger salamander
i am 13.... unlucky for some....

I too have a froglet from some spawn in February. Most did not hatch but three developed to tadpoles, one is now a frog, one is tadpole with backlegs and one unfortunately died.

Will post a picture of lil frog soon who is now feeding on micro crix and fruit flies.

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Ah ok. Well, mine are fed on goldfish flake and pellets, which have a huge amount of energy in them, compared with lettuce and duckweed! lol. So thats why they are quicker at growing. I admit, though, that some of the tadpoles still only have stumps, but at least 6 have all 4 legs, and most have back legs.

I had about 20/30 or so, but have been releasing some as they grow, as to not overpopulate the (small!) tank.

I guess these ones are 4/5 weeks old.

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Cool! Yeh... thats the problem I have, I dont think my mum can be bothered to feed micro cricks and fruit flies (which is, funnily enough, the exact two things I suggested they needed). I think I will tell her they need them though... else we will have to release the froglets.

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ye i release them as they get bigger for the same reason!
i'll buy some fish food then
its only 95p at the village shop
cheers

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1 corn snake
1 leopard gecko
1 rabbit
2 rats
4 cats
8 indian stick insects
1 tiger salamander
i am 13.... unlucky for some....

they r so cute, i used to do these lil projects when i was a child, might try it next yr with my son, if i can find any frog spawn

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Yeh, cool

I never got to do this in my school lol. My grandparents had a pond, though, and I was always in there with my net

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