Back to the pond, or your daughter will be a lot more upset at the result. Just explain to her that it won't work.

Tadpoles tend to stay near the surface in my pond - making it pretty easy to watch them develop in their natural environment. Maybe it's time for a little talk with your daughter about the responsibilities of having pets - namely keeping them safe and happy.

Dee

A lot of my friends from childhood, and my kid neighbors have tried this. They would start out with about 5o+ tadpoles and only end up with a few surviving.

Hi, I would let her know that it is a lot of work to keep it, my duaghters did the same when they were children but Im like an animal nut so I built them a terrarium, the tadpoles did indeed live and go on to become frogs then later released, but if you would like to try all you would need is a ten gallon tank with regular aquarium gravel set up on a slant, so that one side of the tank is water and the other side is "land", keep the temp the same as outside, feed the little guy spiralina chips or plain old tropical fish food, change the water with spring water as needed and you should be good to go, when his legs grow in (or out?) it will start to venture onto land, then you will need to buy small crickets to feed it, it wont take them right away but will when its ready, then when its all grown up you can keep it, or, you can just set it free now, its up to you! =) Tony =^)-

You can keep it if its just one,really. If you keep fish,then you can feed them fish food pellets. Cooked water will work. Let the water cool down first though. they are coolwater creatures.