Quote Originally Posted by LLLReptile View Post
I would wait until he is a couple of inches across before offering something as large as a nightcrawler. Just give it time, pacmans don't need to eat a ton of food anyway, and it may just be stressed out from being offered food a little too frequently on top of the infection treatment. Time, patience, and alone time should fix it up.

The story you describe with the toad in highschool sounds more like it died in the cage, and the beetles ate it, starting with the softest part of the body first. Once in an animal's stomach, the acid inside kills it, or at the very least they are not in there long enough to pupate and turn into beetles - that's a process that can take a week or more! I hear this frequently, and every single time it has been because the animal died prior, and the beetles/superworms/mealworms/crickets ate the animal after it died. This story is like coming across a cow that's died in a field, and a vulture is eating the cow, so you assume the vulture killed the cow. All feeder insects are opportunists, and will feed readily on a deceased animal. They do not eat their way out of the stomach.

-Jen
How long would it take for the beetles to go after the frog? Cuse he was alive the day before and dead and eaten the next. I mean, ya, I always thought the story was a little fishy (it was what my parents and I were told back then) so I'm not surprised to be wrong. I'm still probably not going to feed mealworms to any of my pets just cuse it brings up negative memories and I'm just a little gun shy about them. ^^;


At the time of my last post I hadn't messed with her for several hours but checked on her a little bit after my last post and found she had eaten one of the crickets I'd put in her tank so shes finally eating.


Thanks for the tip Grif. Question? What are red wigglers?