Anyone hatch (common) frog eggs before?

[Skrabbitskrabbit]

My kids class is going to try to hatch frog eggs and raise tadpoles until they become frogs. There’s about 30 eggs. Wondering if the tank needs to be cycled? They won’t be fed for a few weeks after they hatch so I’m not sure if I should bring the teacher some filter material (I don’t even know if they’re using a filter or not) to try to keep the water cycled

 

[Fishfur]

My kids class is going to try to hatch frog eggs and raise tadpoles until they become frogs. There’s about 30 eggs. Wondering if the tank needs to be cycled? They won’t be fed for a few weeks after they hatch so I’m not sure if I should bring the teacher some filter material (I don’t even know if they’re using a filter or not) to try to keep the water cycled

I can remember catching tads in the creek as a very young kid and putting them in jars to watch them grow legs. But then I’d put them back in the creek cause I didn’t want to hurt them,

The tads need clean water and they need to eat - where else is the energy to grow and metamorphose going to come from?

Tadpoles typically eat plant matter - so I hope the teacher isn’t planning on finding out how long it takes to starve a tad to death.

Filtration and cycling isn’t essential if regular water changes are done every few days. But the water must be dechlorinated.

Tads must have food. They only live on the yolk sac after hatching for a few days. After that, they need feeding or food living in their water with them.

 

[Sewerrat]

Have only done frogs in ponds outside never needed a filter found tadpoles to eat off leaves breaking down and such more than prepared foods I attempted to feed.

 

[Skrabbitskrabbit]

thanks! Maybe I’ll give her some floating plants instead of filter material. And I’ll make sure my child finds out the water change and feeding schedule so I don’t step on anybody’s toes (assuming they’re doing all the right things) haha.

 

[TClare]

As a child I was always collecting frogspawn in spring and rearing the tadpoles, I would let the tiny frogs go as it was too difficult to find food for them, but they were very easy to rear to this stage. I think I just stuck a load of pond weed from our pond in a small tank or container, and fed them occasionally with fish food...Of course I had never heard of cycling a tank in those days! (And I don't think I ever changed the water, maybe I topped it up...). This was in the UK and with the common frog, Rana temporaria, not sure if the same species you have?

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Every year I raise tadpoles at home and now at a small lake I steward. I transfer them from a vernal drainage pond that goes dry before some can develop. The home ones cohabitate with Endlers, the lake ones I have a protected area around a fallen tree base that is part of the lake and stays wet year round and is protected from the fish.

 

[Skrabbitskrabbit]

The classroom tadpoles are looking good. They hatched Monday and seem to be growing well. The teacher has been sharing pics of the progress.