Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Do Yellow Perch eat Tadpoles?

I have observed the same as stated above. One thing that will eat up the toadpoles is the black birds. As soon as they get piled up on the shore and when they get their little legs and start hopping around the shore the black birds and redwing black birds eat them up.

Wonder what effect the tadpoles have on the water plankton the baby fry would eat? Is it enough one should scoop out all the tadpoles you can?