Tadpole Update 5-20

We cleaned our tadpoles this morning and thought I'd give you an update. If you look at the first picture of the single tadpole, and look under the tail, you'll see those little lines. Those are it's little legs beginning to form.



What we did to clean the tadpoles was to first get a pan and filled it half way up with water. We put some chemical in it that you can get at any pet store to take the chlorine out so it doesn't kill the tadpoles. First we realized our big net was too big so we used our crock pot spoon to fish them out of the dirty tank and put them into the pan of water. When we got down to the end we ended up using a cup and a spoon. We counted around 30 tadpoles all together.



The tadpoles are back in their newly clean tank. We're planning to keep the tadpoles until they all have legs and are able to survive on their own as frogs. We are then going to put them into two of our ponds. If summer comes before that happens we'll have to put them out in the ponds anyway and hope the best for them.