Water Gardening: Got tads?, 1 by Badseed

Badseed wrote:
LOL Charlotte!

busybee, so far as I know, it's "dog eat dog" in nature. If the fish is bigger or the frog is bigger, you are going to lose the other one. We tossed some tadpoles in the pond and the fish had no problem gulping them down. At my other house, the bullfrog stayed in a five gallon pot inside the pond and kept it's tads in there too. I did see the fish swim in and out of the pot when the water was high enough but can't really say whether or not they ate the tadpoles. Once we were up to three bullfrogs that I knew of, no more baby fish matured. It could have been the larger fish or the frogs that ate them.

Here is a pic of some of the varying sizes of crayfish/crawdads.