May I respectfully repeat: Toadpoles last about 2 or 3 weeks, then disappear
POOF! When mine leave the pond, they still have their little tails! Nothing
eats them, they just go to continue their development somewhere else, and
I'll be dashed if I know where! Maybe nothing got your tads: maybe it was
just time to go???? BTW, I tossed a piece of watermelon in the pond
yesterday: the fish *ignored* it, but the taddies were crawling ALL over it,
and even burrowed holes IN it!

Lee

"jammer" j@mmer wrote in message
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I am an idiot.

Had all these tadpoles in a kiddie pool. Gave them cheerios last night
and enjoyed watching them on their merry-go-rounds, but today i reason
that birds like cheerios too, and hey, if there are fish attached to
those cheerios, i bet they like them even better.

I dont know how many are left but something wiped out over a thousand.

Now, after the fact, there are house screens on top of the pool to
save whatever is left.

Let this be a lesson to some other new toad/pond person!