A frog laid eggs in a big puddle in one of the green belts near our house.for a few days the kids went and caught some for their teachers and themselves. One day when Casey went to see the tadpoles the puddle was almost all evaporated and the tadpoles were running out of water, I think it was mostly mud. Casey ran home to get more water and a container and he brought home this container with about an inch of mud, and inch of water and hundreds of squirming tadpoles! He said they were all going to die and he had to save them. He dug through he mud and saved every tadpole he could find!
so we got a bigger tub and dumped a bunch a water in it and then in went the tadpoles. I tried to get a shot of them, but it was hard with the dirty water.
His teacher had read that they need something to climb onto so that when they turn into frogs they can climb out of the water or else they will die. We added some sticks and a brick and they did indeed begin climbing out of the water in the next couple of days.
Chad cleaned the water a bit by taking out the dirty water and adding clean water, so now you can see them a little better. All the dark are tadpoles and or itty bitty frogs.
By the time they were turning into frogs we decided they had to go. They were starting to climb the sides of the tub and I didn't want baby frogs escaping into my house! We figured they would die out in the green belt since it was all dry by now and we still had quite a few tadpoles too, so we decided to take them to the city pond and let them go there.
so we got a bigger tub and dumped a bunch a water in it and then in went the tadpoles. I tried to get a shot of them, but it was hard with the dirty water.
His teacher had read that they need something to climb onto so that when they turn into frogs they can climb out of the water or else they will die. We added some sticks and a brick and they did indeed begin climbing out of the water in the next couple of days.
Chad cleaned the water a bit by taking out the dirty water and adding clean water, so now you can see them a little better. All the dark are tadpoles and or itty bitty frogs.
By the time they were turning into frogs we decided they had to go. They were starting to climb the sides of the tub and I didn't want baby frogs escaping into my house! We figured they would die out in the green belt since it was all dry by now and we still had quite a few tadpoles too, so we decided to take them to the city pond and let them go there.
It was hard to get a picture of them, but i got a picture of a couple as they were hopping around by the water.
Some of the tadpoles were getting eaten by fish, but we figured it was survival of the fittest at this point, circle of life and all that.
1 comment:
How COOL! I love it! Especially that Casey saved them from the evaporating water. He's a tadpole hero!!
We got some a couple of years ago and watched them grow up. It was fun. And ick, I can't imagine frogs loose in your kitchen...ugh.
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