Hi from Tujunga, California!

[Tom Highum]

Welcome to the Forum. It is great to have you here, where did you used to be a zookeeper? Argus reed frogs are pretty I am glad a few ended up surviving. Do you have any pictures? Before the pacman died was he exposed to low temperatures because I believe they are sensitive to them. Be free to ask questions and share your knowledge.

[frumiousfrog]

Thank you, Tom, for the welcome. I was a zookeeper at the Los Angeles Zoo for about 15 years, but I worked strictly with warm-blooded animals.

I don't have any pictures of my reed frogs, and actually I haven't seen them or heard them in a couple of weeks. They tend to hide in the plants in their terrarium, and I leave them alone until it's time to clean the tank or replace the plants. I have only one pair--the male is greenish and the female is brownish with lighter spots. I'll be tearing down their terrarium soon to replace the plants, and if the frogs are still there, I'll try my hand at getting some pictures.

The pacman frog wasn't subjected to any low temperatures, since it was summer when he died. If anything, he may have gotten too hot, if that's possible. However, I had him in a small aquarium with shredded coconut fiber as a substrate, and he often ingested small amounts when he ate, because he was a clumsy feeder. I wonder if it would have been better to feed him in a separate tank, without any substrate? I just didn't want to handle him too much, and I had been told the coconut fiber was good because he could dig down into it (which he did).

I need to learn more about them before I try another pacman frog, but even at the reptile shows, the vendors give conflicting information!