Help with raising common frog tadpoles

[taniaaust1]

Im new at this too, raising my first tabpoles and have some frogs from them now.

While they have back legs they can continue eatting what they are eatting eg frozen lettuce, algae (I also used to give mine some fishflakes but I havent seen that mentioned much online so dont know if that is best..a pet shop told me to do that. I ended up with a quite obese tabpole due to doing that I think..it got so fat that it looked like it had that frog bubble disease). Mine used to also eat their duckweed in the pond (I had to go and buy more duckweed and they ate that too so they are back to having none).

They stop eatting just before they turn to frogs eg get front arms and while they are loosing tails.. They then are feeding upon the reserves they have within their bodies as their tails dissolve.

If you have tabpoles which arent tree frog ones of some kind (common tabpoles dont mean much.. they could be treefrogs or otherwise).. you will need an easy way for them to get out when they are changing to frogs as they could otherwise drown eg a gentle slope for them to get out of is recommended.. needs to start below waterline as non treefrogs dont have the pads on their feet to grip things to climb out.

[Botanist]

Thanks for the reply. So It's fine to feed them just lettuce up until they form into frogs? or would you suggest a more varied diet. Also, the tadpoles are Rana Temporaria.