Bucket Tadpole

I found something quite weird on June 17th, but not out of the ordinary considering what has been happening in the last few days.

See, I went outside to look at our pool for any tadpoles that became frogs (with no luck might I add), and as I was heading back into my house, I spotted a white bucket near the door. The moment I peered into it out of sheer curiousity, I got excited and got out my camera. What did I see? This:

Don't know what I saw? Well, it's that little black speck at the one o' clock position position of the bucket. Can you guess what it is? Well, look at the (blurry) picture below to get a clue. 

Still can't tell? Well, it's a tadpole. In a bucket. Not sure how it got there, but I suppose my father might have put it there for one reason or another. In any case, this is closest I've been to seeing a tadpole so close. I saw its little eyes on the sides of its rounded head and the long tail it used to propel itself in that shallow water. I have to say that I kind of felt sorry for it and wondered if it had eaten anything since being put in there, so I fished out some algae from my pool. However, there was something quite strange in the water when it dropped in there.

See that little red line in there? I think it's a worm. At least, it moved as if it were a worm and it dislodged itself from the algae. I am not so sure of what it is, but from what I observed, the tadpoles don't eat them. In any case, I observed and took (very bad) pictures of the tadpole and its little red buddy until I got some good shots to upload onto my computer.  

After that, though, I went back to the pool and observed the tadpoles a little more. I managed to find out that if you flipped them over, you would see their white, translucent underbellies. Of course, I only found that out after one laid upside down in the water and caught my attention, but it wasn't dead, don't worry. The algae in my pool is really thick, though, and I guess these tadpoles will be surviving in there for quite a while. At least, I hope so.