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Tadpoles eating fish in pond???
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 17:37:33 +0100, "stella @ stejonda"
wrote: Hi everyone I'm new here and hoping for some advice. Our pond has 7 fish in it. Until frogs and tadpoles arrived, they seemed happy and healthy. Since the pond has been taken over by 11 frogs and a huge number of tadpoles 1 fish has died, one has lost half its tail and another has a large area on its body chewed. The tadpoles seem aggressive eaters and I'm wondering if they are chewing the fish. If this is likely, I would want to remove as many tadpoles as I can and continue rearing them in a tank feeding them boiled lettuce. I have done this successfully before. Next year I plan to remove the spawn early and do this. What do people think? Stella Day (Dave's wife) When I was living in digs many years ago, my landlady's little boy brought home a jam-jar of tadpoles (as you do at that age). They had no pond, and the best thing she could think to do with them was to put them in the archetypal goldfish bowl overnight, along with the solitary goldfish. Next morning, no tadpoles, one fat goldfish and floods of tears from the little boy! I guess tadpoles eat goldfish eat tadpoles. -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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