Big mistake

[Python-77]

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.

[tigerlily]

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.

[Python-77]

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

[tigerlily]

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

[daniel1983]

.....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

[PrincessErica]

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

[fish21]

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

[Cloud7659]

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 . 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.