Our tadpoles and salmanders are thriving in the 'little ponds' on our deck. We have been adding fresh pond water every week or so and new vegetation to ensure there is plenty of organisms in the water for our salamanders to eat. We had been feeding our tadpoles fish food and noticed that the few that had made their way into our salamander bowl (they had been taken for show and tell with a salamander nymph and we decided to keep them together) are almost twice the size as the fish food fed little guys (and no it's not because they've eaten the salmander nymphs). We think it may be because this bowl has a lot of pond vegetation and a larger swimming surface, whereas the other bowl was low on vegetation and has a smaller swimming surface, but is deeper. So we have added a lot of surface vegetation to the tadpole bowl, and we'll see what happens.
The salamander nymphs have doubled in size, and their front legs are now quite visible. We will need to adjust their habitat to a large container soon, so that we can have a gradual ascent from the water as they develop further. We are really enjoying them.
We have added a little cluster of mystery eggs to our lab that we found on a leaf from our pea shoots. Our guess is ladybug...we'll just have to wait and see. So fun!!
Next up...caterpillars.
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