Keeping Spring Peeper tads alive

[Kurt]

How long did they last? Chances the water could have fouled. Amonia and other toxic chemicals could've built up in such a small container. Try a larger enclosure and so gentle filtration.

[Bill B]

How long did they last? Chances the water could have fouled. Amonia and other toxic chemicals could've built up in such a small container. Try a larger enclosure and so gentle filtration.

Just a few hours. I've kept wood frog, gray treefrog, and northern leopard frog tads in similar containers (with far more biomass of tadpoles), and they all did quite well.

[Kurt]

Ok then its a mystery to me, but I still lean towards a water chemistry problem.

[Bill B]

Well, I put the latest collection in large, blue bucket, and they are doing fine. Perhaps the lunch meat containers leached something in the water that this bucket does not; perhaps it has to do with the volume of the water; perhaps they like the darker conditions and are less stressed.