Poe and food.

[Iratus ranunculus]

Feeding him fish flakes were you? That explains the scoliosis. Fish flakes have a high surface area to volume ratio and vitamins in the B complex are water soluble. It leaches into the water in seconds and he cannot absorb it in sufficient quantity. In some cases this can lead to a deficiency, which will lead to scoliosis and other problems. Algae wafers do not provide a lot of it either.

In addition to eating algae, wild tadpoles also feed on detritus and little copepods and other micro-organisms they get with said algae and detritus. That provides the B complex vitamins they need. For your new tadpoles I would recommend alfalfa pellets (during the harvesting process insect bits get left in), or sinking pellets such as trout chow. An alternative is to seed the tank with detritus from a pond bottom.

[Jace]

Oh. I was told to feed him fish flakes, and I picked up two different kinds of algae wafers just to mix up his diet a bit. However, if you look through my photo album of him, you can see the kink in his tail and the start of the growth on the first day I got him, before he was even offered food. Wherever he was before, he was not getting the right vitamins.

I am no where near a pond, so that option is out. Would shrimp pellets work? Once Poe fully morphs and starts taking crickets, what can I give him to boost his system? Will the scoliosis affect him as an adult frog? Guess it's back to the petstore I go....

[Iratus ranunculus]

Oh. I was told to feed him fish flakes, and I picked up two different kinds of algae wafers just to mix up his diet a bit. However, if you look through my photo album of him, you can see the kink in his tail and the start of the growth on the first day I got him, before he was even offered food. Wherever he was before, he was not getting the right vitamins.

I am no where near a pond, so that option is out. Would shrimp pellets work? Once Poe fully morphs and starts taking crickets, what can I give him to boost his system? Will the scoliosis affect him as an adult frog? Guess it's back to the petstore I go....

Yeah, vitamin dusted crickets and assortment of other insects will do it. Anything that gives him animal protein will give him the B complex vitamins he needs, and provided the kink in the tail is all he has, he should be fine.