Big mistake

Well wasnt sure if I should post here for the froggy forum but I made a major goof up today. Well I went out and picked up a couple of bull frog tadpoles to have my daughter watch grow up into frogs, then I would have a cool pair of frogs. Well I have 2 turtles that I keep in a 55gal I also keep several fish with the turtles. The fish and turtles do fine together for over a year now not one loss. Well is 20 min both tadpoles were lunch I to each turtle, so I have come to the conclustion that my turtles would eat the fish if the could catch them they are jsut lazy.

Oh no, your daughter wasn't too attached yet - I hope!?! Well she didn't get the science lesson you were hoping for, but there is always the food chain lesson. ;) Sorry to hear about poor little tadpoles.

nope I went top show them to her and I noticed there wasnt much to look at and played it off.

Are you gonna just cut your losses or try again? lol :giggle:

.....so did you teach your daughter about the food chain then?...ha...could not resist :)

I tried to keep bull frog tadpoles a few times when I was a kid....never had any luck. They always seemed to bite the dust....I guess tadpoles are not a forgiving animal to care for :)

Ahhh, the joys of housing different species together. Sometimes it works, sometimes, obviously, it doesn't. At least now you know!

the saying with turtles is anything that can be food eventually (could be years) will be food. haha. i have had fish in with my turts for years then one day, you walk in the room and hay where did the fish go (lunch) LOL

fish

in general its not a good idea to put anything in there with your turtles. Fish are ok but they just create more waste for your filters, I like plecos because they clean :P. A GREAT number of frogs are toxic to turtles and the results can be fatal. To be on the safe side, you'd be best to keep their habitats separate.