Pacman frog pulling some WEIRD STUFF.

[Camden]

My pacman frog for one, hasnt eaten since I got him...like three weeks ago. well He might has eaten 3 or 4 crickets.
But right now, he is like pawing at the wall of the tank. I threw some crickets but hes ignored them.
its almost like he's trying to climb the wall of the tank, and its kinda scary cause he flipped over backwards into his water.(hes okay now.)
I'm a bit worried.
What could this be?

[Sublime]

Your frog is suffering from malnutrition, seems to be acting spasmodic resulting from this. You need to force feed him or her a frozen-thawed mouse or a few night crawlers. Buy the liquid calcium and liquid vitamins with a syringe that comes with it and inject it into the mouse. If you are going to do night crawlers, supplement those with a 1:1 ratio of calcium with d3 and multivitamin to get your frogs nutrients back in him or her. This may cause digestive uptake, but with a proper ratio of 1:1, it shouldn't affect your frog's metabolism. Reason being is he needs both quickly, multivitamin and calcium with d3.

Procedure for force feeding:
1. Take a spoon, butter knife, or credit card.
2. Gently lower the bottom lip of the frog while having your other hand ready with the tongs.
3. Once frog opens mouth, insert real quick and let him or her do the rest of the work.

Hope he or she pulls through - 3 weeks without food is not good. Update us please.

[GrifTheGreat]

I'm sorry to hear that. Three weeks is a long time without food and you should probably force feed. I would recommend starting with the worms because they are easier to digest. How big is your frog? If he is under 2 inches then you probably don't want to give him a mouse.

We could use some more info. Is the frog showing any other physical symptoms? What are the terrarium conditions? Temp? Humidity? Substrate? etc. Also, how big is the tank? When Loki was a baby, we had him in a large critter keeper. One day I checked on him and he was trying to climb up the walls and bumping against them. I moved him into a ten gallon and he has been happy as a clam ever since. If there is something wrong with their conditions they will sometimes try to get away. Say if the substrate is too wet or too dry... check to make sure their isn't anything irritating your frog. You are going to need to get some food into him quickly though. Good luck and keep us posted.

[IvoryReptiles]

Mark.....please stop telling people to force feed mice or pinkies. If a frog needs to be force fed, that is NOT the meal it should be fed.

If your frog is trying to climb walls, it is stressed and something in the enclosure is not right. I will ask yet again....are you using de-chlorinated water for the frog? How often do you clean the substrate and how wet do you keep it? WHat type of heating source are you using (if any)?.........and all the questions that Grif asked too.

[Sublime]

Yes; I agree with the conditions your pacman is housed in has led to stress, therefore not eating.

However; I don't agree with you (Ivory) saying that a mouse is NOT right in this situation. It's very applicable in this situation - it's not impossible for pacman's to digest a mouse, especially prior to it not eating for awhile. I've seen a few experienced pacman owners force feed mice to ones that don't feed as readily or are wild caught after a few weeks. Everything has worked out fine.

[Camden]

Hi all. I successfully force fed for the first time. But I got him at a rather large size so hes maybe a little smaller if not the size of a baseball.
I force-fed him a mouse and he is looking back to normal now. I think the reason of his not eating was because he is cold, I had a small heating pad on the side but it did nothing.
Luckily, I ordered pet millipedes (NOT FOOD!) Online last week, and I also ordered some heating pads for them. They are a little bigger, so I used one of those on the side of my frogs tank. But for some reason he is chirping, not moving away from the heating pad, but he is making little "cheep" sounds?
Next time I force feed should I feed him a worm or another mouse? (They are dead/frozen/thawed fuzzies.)