I was on my way to collect some mosquito larvae

[Rusty_Shackleford]

When I discovered a tree frog has laid eggs in my bucket.

I looked at my buckets last evening during a pause between thunderstorms and I heard a frog calling from the tree right above the buckets.
I'd love to save the eggs. Perhaps why there were laid there as the mosquito larvae would be a built in food source for the tads?
But I'd love to harvest those larvae as well.
Anu ideas on what to do?

 

[Boundava]

No clue, but that is a neat find!

 

[GaryE]

I'd get a new bucket and let that one play out.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

I'd get a new bucket and let that one play out.

Yep I'm gonna be raising tads for a couple of months.
The tadpoles are omnivores so most likely they'll eat the mosquito larvae. I'll supplement with some flake food and do water changes with rain water. That's what they are in now.

 

[Herpin Man]

For raising tadpoles, I have had the best luck with sinking wafers. Cory wafers, as well as the green plant based ones.
They are unlikely to eat the mosquito larva until they are much larger, if at all. Their mouths are built for scraping and sucking, not for consuming live prey.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

The eggs are developing.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

Tadpoles!!!

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

Quick update. I would estimate somewhere around 6-10 tadpoles have survived to this point. They are growing up, happily munching on NLS flake food.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

Tads are starting to sprout rear legs.