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Taking care of live tadpoles in a live tadpole kit

Author: Vikram Kumar
by Vikram Kumar
Posted: Feb 04, 2016

Frogs are one of the most useful, tricky and essential to the ecosystem organisms in the whole world. This is because they maintain the delicate balance of the ecosystem and the food chain by controlling the population of gnats, mosquitoes and other insects. Therefore, one amazing way of developing a hobby as well as giving back to the planetary ecosystem would be to rear live tadpoles.

In order to do this, you need not go out into the wild and get yourself into waist deep dirty water just to get your hands on some tiny frog eggs. Instead, to make things better you can get yourself a live tadpoles kit at any store where you already get tadpoles, developed from their egg stage, and also few tricks and tools for the trade to help you rear them better.

The first step to caring for live tadpoles is to find a suitable contained where they can grow and which can hold a large amount of water for their free movement. Keeping them outside is the best option, because that way, they will find enough insect larvae to eat. However, you do not need to bother yourself with this if you get a live tadpoles kit because they generally come with a suitable container space.

Just like you need a homely place with suitable shade, so do the tadpoles. This ensures that you need to cover the base of the container with rocks or sand for shade and plant some weeds and grass so that not only can the tadpoles feed on them, but also attach themselves to the roots while feeding. Also, this protects them from direct sunlight. Besides this, be very very careful that the plants and weeds you use are free from any pesticides or other harmful chemicals because if they are, your tadpoles will die in a matter of hours.

You should never keep more than five to seven tadpoles in one liter of water because if your do, they may either die, or become competitive and start feeding on each other, and that is something best not witnessed.

When changing the water of the container, which you should do quite regularly otherwise the tadpoles will die, change half of the water at a time. This means that if you have one liter of water, take away half a liter and add fresh water to the remaining half. This is to make sure that the pH level of the water does not change abruptly and that the tadpoles do not die.

When the tadpoles change into the next stage, that is, when they develop tiny spindle like legs, they start to crawl. This means that you either have to shift them into another container which has a large amount of dirt at its base or add some dirt to the container that is housing the tadpoles, since they will start to crawl. If this is not done, the tadpoles will drown and die within a matter of days.

Rearing tadpoles from that stage to full-grown frogs needs serious commitment and a ton of patience because they require a very long time to mature. Therefore, do not get frustrated and throw them away and do not get them in the first place if you are not ready for a full time commitment. You can make a purchase of http://www.amazon.com/LIVE-Growing-SHIPPED-Tadpoles-Leopard/dp/B00B7TCGBO Live Tadpole kit to take proper care of the http://www.live-tadpoles.com/ Live tadpoles

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