relbugman wrote:
Tad food suggestion: get a small jar of a mixed baby food meal, the kind that is pureed. Put a bunch in a plastic bag and squish it flat, about 3-5mm thick, and freeze it. Break a few small chunks off the frozen plack and drop in the tank (not much, depending on how many tads -- more for your hundreds!). I use a meat-and-veggie mix (corn, aspar. spinach, beans, or a fruit, plus chicken, pork, beef in mixed dinners). They nibble it off the frozen chunk as it thaws. Whack the frozen bag on a table to break the food into small pieces, and keep in the freezer. Makes an easy and nutritious food that does not foul the tank provided you don't add too much at a time. They are fun to raise. Put in a floating piece of wood, weighted at one end to make a shallow ramp, for the teenagers to climb out as their tails reabsorb.
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That is a good idea. I am already finding they nearly all like to keep near the surface and lots congregate on a lettuce leaf and the parts of the plants that are close to the surface, keeping their heads above the water. I am changing part of the water with pond water stored at the same temperature. I will get a ramp going as well.