"billfish" wrote in message
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I don't know why your tadpoles are slow to develop but I can tell you
that a friend of mine has a similar situation. He built his small
concrete pond in the shade of a large laburnum tree, the leaves and
seeds of which are toxic. He doesn't keep fish and the plants don't
seem to mind the poison, but the tadpoles never seem to grow up. I'm
half-tempted to try a glass or two of his pond water to see if it works
on the human aging process. (Not really, don't try this at home kids!)
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They may grow faster if he feeds them. I accidentally stumbled onto this in
my plant propagation tanks. The one I was dropping flakes in because of a
few GF fry had tadpoles much larger than the tubs that I wasn't dropping
flakes in. They came up and just sucked those flakes down like candy.
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McKoi.... frugal ponding since 1995...
My Pond Page http://tinyurl.com/cuq5b
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