What do you feed your tadpoles?

It depends on the species of frogs and well.

I find Ameerega love algae based food, while Ranitomeya do not grow nearly as well on algae based food.

By algae based food do you mean spirulina and chlorella?
What is an example of a non algae based food? Fish flakes?

I use a group tadpole tank with aquarium plants, aquarium wood and bright light - lots of algae and biofilm growth. The water is rather old. Then feed some tadpole bites or flake fish food or fish sinking pellets. It varies.
I also add some fruitflies to the tank so a few always drown and they eat those as well I suppose.
Works for auratus, galacts and azureus.

I use Omega One fish food pellets.

I use Omega Frog and Tadpole Pellets for my Ranitomeya, usually dusted with a little Spirulina, but I'm not sure the latter is helpful or not, and sometimes might be contributing to algea problems in some of my deli cups.

fishingguy12345 said:

I mean algae fish food for algae eating fish.
Here's that I use:
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How important do you reckon is the composition of the algae tabs? From experience most are just green colored regular fish food with algae content only up to 4%.

No clue. Haven't tried different brands or types

SpaceMan said:

I use Omega Frog and Tadpole Pellets for my Ranitomeya, usually dusted with a little Spirulina, but I'm not sure the latter is helpful or not, and sometimes might be contributing to algea problems in some of my deli cups.

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I had no idea Omega made frog and tadpole pellets. Thanks for the heads up.

Edit: After looking at the ingredients list they're actually the same thing as the Marine pellets.

I have so far exclusively fed Repashy Solent Green to my tadpoles including P. bicolor, D. leucomelas, R. variabilis, and R. vanzolini. I have had 20+ of each species besides the R. vanzolini (new breeders). So far I have had what seems like a good success, tadpoles normally survive as long as they make it past the first couple weeks and my offspring have been all healthy.

I do have lots of rouge fruit flies so I am sure some of those fall in the cups as well.

I rotate different foods. Repashy soylent green, Omega pellets and DFC tadpole bits. Sometimes a flake of Tetra Min. I think it's important to have a leaf and some java moss in each container so they can graze on the biofilm. I keep my tads individually, except for Ameerega which I am trying communally. I also keep tads in glass, I'm a major collector of small glasses from Goodwill. To my knowledge there is no plastic that does not release Endocrine disruptors of some form or another. Although I have never heard of anyone having issues with plastic (that they know of), I just prefer to err on the side of caution.

I alternate with hawaiian spirulina powder and shrimp baby. I've had great success with these, I raise mainly tincs, galacts, auratus, and phyllobates.

i use tetramin flakes, never had any problems

For my Dendrobates leucomelas,tinctorius I use a ratio of 2/1/1: repashy- soilent green/community plus/grub pie

I have ranitomeya sirensis highland that I rarely supplement with 1/1/1 ratio of the above trio. They are in clear tubes that I feel don’t have the aufwuchs that the bromeliads contain.