New baby Pacman Frog

[alane]

Bought him at the local PetSmart as a little dirt covered blob. Cleaned up nicely. It took 24 hours or so to settle in. Now we're eating 2-5 crickets a day until we're full.

[Brandonnn]

The colors really look awesome

[alane]

I've only had little nugget for a week now, but we've settled into an easy routine.

So small, the little bugger fits in half of a tablespoon. So I use a tablespoon to lift out of the burrow and into a feeding box.

Today, bad luck, our first strike got us a lump of cocoa media. So I got to see the "ptui-ptui-ptui" frog mouth rejection reflex.

But then we ate five crickets and even hopped and hunted one down rather than just waiting for it. That tongue must have come out an inch and a half. I was looking _right at it_ but it was such a flash that I did not see it. I was videoing with a go-pro so maybe I got a frame of baby frog tongue. *hope* The frog might move slow, but the food-eating reflex is just lightning fast.

And that's the excitement for the day. We get back into the tablespoon and get lifted back into the cocoa media, which we truly love to sit in for the next twenty hours.

[alane]

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVq00unNaIw

Slow-motion of the strike:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eidjFziR-ko

[alane]

So, the tongue does not come out an inch and a half. You can see clearly how much distance the tongue is worth.
But when froggy goes for it, froggy acts with lightning speed. This is slowed down 10x.

I could watch this gif for an hour.