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what would be a basic diet for tads aside from sprilinua(sp?)

I have successfuly raised 2 tads out of 2 woohoo! yeah, my diet for the first while was bottem feeder tablets from hikari I think for fish, with java moss, and then frogs/newt food in pellet form. A couple weeks later while they were still tads I added a spirulina based fish food(tetra), and then dried tubifex worms(hikari) and some eds fly meat tadpole powder. I got all the fishfoods really cheap online at thatpetplace.com. The 2 mantella tads I raised are nearly 6 or 7 months out of the water and doing great!
Mark Jemison
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"Bottom feeder food"? Isn't that for lawyers? I'm not sure I'd feed that to tadpoles . . . .
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Homer W. Faucett III, esq.
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Homer....that was BAD.

We use a 50 - 50 mix of spurilina and chlorea as the staple for out tads. I feed blood worms 2-4 times a month as a supplement. It takes a while to do, so sometimes I will skip a week here or there, but I try to feed blood worms a time a week.

You can also feed a high protien fish food.

We stopped feeding fish food to ours, because the water becomes fouled quickly, and you have to change the water more frequently.

Hope this helps!
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Quality Captives

thanks

I've got to throw in the obligatory bad joke every once in a while, otherwise everyone around here thinks I'm too serious.

The problem with fouled water and standard fish food is probably a function of too many fillers in the fish food, a common problem, especially with some of the lower quality foods (although you wouldn't always know they are lower quality by the price or advertising). I've had similar problems with some batches of spirulina flakes, but high protein foods also seem more likely to foul the water than plant based foods. Of course, that's all from experiences raising fish fry and toad tads and not arrow frog tads, but the concepts and problems are the same.
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Homer W. Faucett III, esq.
Purveyor of Trivialities and Fine Nonsense