Stella wrote in message:


For the second year running the many tadpoles in my pond are failing to
grow legs and complete their transformation into frogs. Has anybody any
idea why this might be? Last year they just all died after lasting as
tadpoles well into the summer.

then
Sue wrote


Seems time enough yet for them still to be legless!

then Mike wrote

Could those 'little stick things' be dehydrated legs ;-)) ?

Now Sue says

Almost certainly , now I come to think of it! I wonder if you can get little
dried shoes for them too....or being fish food maybe skates?