Life Cycle Stages (sorry, mom post here):

Brittanic Encyclopedia online has a cool image depicting the life cycle of a European common frog: https://www.britannica.com/animal/amphibian/General-features

Our tadpole El Gordo is in the late stages now:

El Gordo grows limb buds and our Mosquitofish has babies. . .

Sorry we haven't posted in a while!  The tadpoles have been eating, sleeping, growing, breathing with their gills and eating some more.  We also brought home 10 mosquitofish with our tadpoles.  Yesterday one of the fish had babies.  Mosquitofish give live birth.  The babies, called fish larva, were super tiny.  It was cool to see the baby fish coming out of the mom. 
Then today we noticed limb buds on El Gordo!  They will become its hind legs. 

-Austin, Brayden, & Sydney

*I usually try to let the kids do the blog, but I thought it would be fun for the kids to see a little video of the tadpoles and the fish larva.  Please check out our video here:  https://youtu.be/WnEWngq1qY8

We will try to do some measurements of the tadpoles over the next few weeks.