Raising Tadpoles 2020

Looks like when I filled up the Three Amigos' jar, and egg came along for the ride.  And it hatched. I think I'm currently up to 11 tadpoles now, wasn't planning on raising quite that many. In the photo below it's just above the right edge of the jar label.

Everyone so far appears to be doing well, They've grown quite a bit in these past few days, approaching around 2cm in length (excluding the newer class members that hatched on Saturday.) 

I decided to try out giving them romaine lettuce. I boiled it in the microwave and cut it up into small pieces.  The pieces ended up still being a bit to large for them to eat(but they were trying their hardest to eat it,) so I turned to a pestle and mortar that I had from a biology class years back and made it into a mush soup with some added water.  I transferred the mush using a dropper.  Thought I would give them another food choice in addition to the crushed turtle food and the existing algae.

And of course some photos of the class members in the order: Three Amigos, Bubbles(name I gave the one in the smaller mason jar, the one in the plant vase, and the new hatchlings.

. . . they hatched. I'm now up to around 9 tadpoles.  Do I have enough tadpoles now?

Today when I was getting some additional ditch water, I ended up recusing two more tadpoles. These two got their own containers.  I've decided to name the first three the "Three Amigos."  It would be hard to tell em apart so that works fine.  If anyone has name suggestions for the two new class members, please leave a comment.

I like to occasionally put some air into the tadpole containers. Sadly the aquarium pump from eons ago was either thrown out, given away, or lost.  What I've done in the past was do it manually with a straw but with the current group being so young/small I wanted something "less violent."  The solution was simple: cram some paper towel on the end that goes into the water to reduce the opening size on the end of the straw and thus produce smaller bubbles. Before and after videos show below:

First off, the tadpoles are about 1 cm in length.  They can't be more than 2-3 days old.  The ditch that I rescued them from was loaded with mosquito larvae. While it may have also been interesting to raise them and document; I didn't care for the idea of raising things that case me for blood. 

I'm thinking about trying out a live stream, but do to me not having a great upload speed, don't expect a great resolution.

The little fellas are still alive and well on day 2.  They did take interest in the roots of the plants that I stuck in the jar, will try to snap a photo of it later.

It finally rained enough for long enough for me to have a filled ditch long enough for tadpoles to be in it.  I used a fine screen net to sift them out.  I have 3 tadpoles in one jar and I put what appear to be tadpole eggs in another jar.  I've put in some small plant in the jar in case they also happen to like to feed on the roots.

Below is a clip of the three tadpoles in the one jar: