'Screech' Pacman Tank Setup

[Silver00LT]

Okay....it's come a long way since I messed up and bought him without research three weeks ago. If you are doing your research before you purchase a pacman. I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend the care guide available on this site. Thread: Frog Forum - Pacman and Horned Frogs - Ceratophrys - Care and Breeding

Setup/Cost:
30G Tank(was old fish tank coverted) - Too much
Stand - Custom built
^ I converted them because I already had them and good quality. To make it easy I have around $300 invested just in tank and stand.

Zoo Med Reptifogger - $60 - Petsmart
Zoo Med Hygrotherm - $100 - Petsmart
Coconut Fiber Substrate - $7 set of 3 bricks. I bought 3 sets as its hard to come by here(cheaply) Petsmart wanted $7 for ONE brick so price around. I got mine at Pet Supplies Plus.
Ornaments - $40(I have another log, but the crickets hide from him and being young he needs them as much as he can eat them) - Petsmart
Water absorb packets(pretty neat keeps crickets alive and the one in tank keeps them off Screech) - $4 for 6 - Pet Supplies Plus
10-20G UTH - $20
20-30G UTH - $40
^^ Do some research on your tank and lid setup. I have a mesh lid with alum. foil over it except at the lights and heaters full blast(regulated) and lamp it will not go above 82-84*
Cricket Feeder - $15
Cricket Cage w/ tubes - $15
Manual Temp/Humidity gauge - $12
Rheostat - $25(this was my means of regulating the UTH, and as the Hygrotherm has ONE connection I kept it so it controls both heaters)
Programable Surge Protector - $30
Multivitamin Dust - $7
Calcium Dust - $7
Lamp Dome - $50
50w Heat Lamp - $8
40w Red Heat Lamp(emergencies only) - $8

This is also not counting the moss, cypress bedding and other mistakes I made for not doing my research. That was probably around $75 bucks there wasted.

My settings:
12Day/12Night setup programmed in my surge protector for 9a-9p 7 days a week
84* Day temp with a drop of 6* to 78* for night
80% humidity with fogger set on minimum and a tolerance of 75%

Tank takes care of itself now just gotta monitor it. All I have to do is feed Screech and make sure the water bottle for the fogger is full.

Now do not look at my prices and jaw drop. I kept a good bit of it as I could not return it for a cheaper method as I failed to do my research and it cost my wallet. But Screech is happy and healthy. He eats 2-4 crickets in a 24 hour period. Mostly averaging just 3 though. Fed one at a time.

Picture time:

Screech just literally ate two crickets back to back two minutes before this picture.

Size comparison


Thanks for everyone that helped me with my mistakes. Especially Grifthegreat...thanks a lot. I used cell phone as my camcorder and camera are busy charging.

[GrifTheGreat]

Okay....it's come a long way since I messed up and bought him without research three weeks ago. If you are doing your research before you purchase a pacman. I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend the care guide available on this site. Thread: Frog Forum - Pacman and Horned Frogs - Ceratophrys - Care and Breeding

Setup/Cost:
30G Tank(was old fish tank coverted) - Too much
Stand - Custom built
^ I converted them because I already had them and good quality. To make it easy I have around $300 invested just in tank and stand.

Zoo Med Reptifogger - $60 - Petsmart
Zoo Med Hygrotherm - $100 - Petsmart
Coconut Fiber Substrate - $7 set of 3 bricks. I bought 3 sets as its hard to come by here(cheaply) Petsmart wanted $7 for ONE brick so price around. I got mine at Pet Supplies Plus.
Ornaments - $40(I have another log, but the crickets hide from him and being young he needs them as much as he can eat them) - Petsmart
Water absorb packets(pretty neat keeps crickets alive and the one in tank keeps them off Screech) - $4 for 6 - Pet Supplies Plus
10-20G UTH - $20
20-30G UTH - $40
^^ Do some research on your tank and lid setup. I have a mesh lid with alum. foil over it except at the lights and heaters full blast(regulated) and lamp it will not go above 82-84*
Cricket Feeder - $15
Cricket Cage w/ tubes - $15
Manual Temp/Humidity gauge - $12
Rheostat - $25(this was my means of regulating the UTH, and as the Hygrotherm has ONE connection I kept it so it controls both heaters)
Programable Surge Protector - $30
Multivitamin Dust - $7
Calcium Dust - $7
Lamp Dome - $50
50w Heat Lamp - $8
40w Red Heat Lamp(emergencies only) - $8

This is also not counting the moss, cypress bedding and other mistakes I made for not doing my research. That was probably around $75 bucks there wasted.

My settings:
12Day/12Night setup programmed in my surge protector for 9a-9p 7 days a week
84* Day temp with a drop of 6* to 78* for night
80% humidity with fogger set on minimum and a tolerance of 75%

Tank takes care of itself now just gotta monitor it. All I have to do is feed Screech and make sure the water bottle for the fogger is full.

Now do not look at my prices and jaw drop. I kept a good bit of it as I could not return it for a cheaper method as I failed to do my research and it cost my wallet. But Screech is happy and healthy. He eats 2-4 crickets in a 24 hour period. Mostly averaging just 3 though. Fed one at a time.

Picture time:

Screech just literally ate two crickets back to back two minutes before this picture.

Size comparison


Thanks for everyone that helped me with my mistakes. Especially Grifthegreat...thanks a lot. I used cell phone as my camcorder and camera are busy charging.

You're welcome Silver00. take good care of him and keep us updated.

[falconez]

Hello Silver,your setup look fine,I only would suggest you to put the Manual Temp/Humidity gauge a bit lower,as it should stand at 1-1.5 " above the substrate (right next to the probe would be ok),just to take parameters correctly.

[pansie]

what a cute lil baby!! <3

[KingCam]

If you notice him getting stressed try keeping him in a smaller cheap sterilite tub until he's bigger. Some juvenile herps get stressed out if they're in an overly big tank. I dunno if that holds true for pacman frogs, just throwing it out there.

Your setup looks awesome!! Good work

[GrifTheGreat]

If you notice him getting stressed try keeping him in a smaller cheap sterilite tub until he's bigger. Some juvenile herps get stressed out if they're in an overly big tank. I dunno if that holds true for pacman frogs, just throwing it out there.

Your setup looks awesome!! Good work

You're right Cam. Pacman frogs are extremely vulnerable to stress when it comes to their environment.