Quote Originally Posted by GrifTheGreat View Post
That is not normal behavior. Do you guys dust their food items with vitamins and calcium? Dogs do it due to lack of nutrition, but I have never heard of Pacman frogs accidentally eating their own fecies or even on purpose. Mine don't do that and I know no others that don't do it either. Non of the breeders on here speak of such an act occuring either. It is not normal. From now on it would be very smart to remove it when you see it like you're supposed to do. Its unsanitary and if your having problems with your Pac eating it then your risking your frogs life and well being. I would advise your friend to do the same. Just letting it happen is wrong.
Yup, we dust food items with vitamins and calcium. I even have UVB-light in the tank. I breed my own roaches and I'm feeding them very nurticious food. It's happened just once, but I'm certain that this one time he ate his poop, because there's no other explanation for the feces to disappear. It happende a month after we got him, when he still was a juvenile. He's CB in 2010. Shortly after we got him he also had red leg, but we treated him succesfully. I've asked a lot of more experienced keepers what could cause this, but nobody knew. All I found out wat that another keeper experienced the same thing with his own pac.

It never happened again and now he's a healthy pac with a diameter of more than 10 cm. When my gastrotheca starts to call he sometimes answers it. I have no intentions breeding C.cranwelli though. I allready breed enough other animals, especially newts and salamanders, but I just love to have a pac in the living room. Pacs are totally wicked :P