tadpoles

[fuggy]

are tadpoles prone to eating each other?

[MangoPete]

The bigger ones do eat the little ones, quite alarming to young children whose tadpoles share a bowl. They can sometimes jump out and get eaten by cats etc.
In a garden pond the fish will eat them.,

[sherlockian]

They do eat other quite readily - survival of the fittest and all that. When they spawn in my pond there are hundreds of them, but only a handful make it to froglets!

[fuggy]

thank you both. now how do i explain to a group of 4yr old that they have been feeding killers?

[girlygirl2]

Ha ha ha - do you work in a nursery?

[fuggy]

girlygirl2. no, they are friends or should it be fiends of my grandson. i could'nt tell them face to face so i have sent them a note each.

[marlonenora]

my tadpoles are eating the fish food