How can I tell the difference between tadpoles and mosquito larvae? I don't want to kill any tadpoles!?

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Mosquito larvae have hairs on their bodies: http://www.arbovirus.health.nsw.gov.au/a... and the are less than 1/2 inch long. They have to come to the surface to breathe: http://www.arbovirus.health.nsw.gov.au/m... .

Tadpoles aren't hairy and will usually be bigger, although a few are small. The small ones will bee black: http://abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/ju... , but bigger ones are usually brown or gray: http://www.marcusandmeagan.com/pics/tadp...

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Mosquito larva look more like worms.

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why would there by mosquito larvae in an aquarium?

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Larvae look like thin wiggly worms,tadpoles look like fat little gray fish

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Mosquito larvae look like little worms that usually sit at the top of the water until it's disturbed, then they wiggle down. Tadpoles are much larger and look like a giant comma-- they have kind of round bodies with a tail like an eel.

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we use to find tadpoles all the time and before they hatched they were in a slimmy clear ball with black speck which are the unhatch tadpoles. mosquitoes when they hatch look like worms and tadpoles have a bigger body.

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Uh don't the tadpoles eventually eat the Mosquito Larve? When they mature??? Just keep them together! Unless your fishing for tadploes! Then usually tadploes have round heads, and a long tail, and are somewhat transparent in their natural enviornment. Mosquito larve are usually found in in pods floating they are very hard to see.

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Tadpoles are black, mosquito larvae are white and worm-shaped. Mosquitos will hover vertically at the surface, tails up, because that is how they breathe. Tadpoles will actually swim, while the larvae mostly just wriggle about.

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tadpoles look like sperms, and mosquito larvae look like small worms.