My Corner Cage Build for Mr. Pacman

[Rick Mazzante]

Hello guys this is my first post and I've been meaning to log in and post a couple things over the past week I've been browsing but I've been a bit busy at work. Started working at a (local) pet store about 8months ago and my friend and I are in charge of our reptile and amphibian section. I've always been fascinated with all the real life terrariums you can build and the amazing creatures that you can put into a real natural habitat at home. So I picked up my first pacman frog and my first frog in general and I just loved it. He's still small (about 1" 1/2), but then I found another about a month later at a local petco and he was just power fed pinkies all the time so he was big but not on a good diet, so I brought him home and built him this bad boy of a cage the next day.

The cage consist of 3' x 3' x 2' board with a corner style look on the sides. 4 doors on it (overboard i know), the 2 at the corner are straight plexi, then the 2 ends are wooden framed. Then I made a square plexi pool to hold water, and put in some rocks and a filter, now have a dozen rosey red feeders living in there along with 4 crabs and 3 tadpoles, threw a 2.0 UVB at the top for some natural lighting, and then a background for looks. He loves it, i sometimes randomly find him on the lily pad and on top of the waterfall, so funny. Hope you guys like feedback would be appreciated going to be making a smaller version soon for my other guy

[KingCam]

wow, this is an AWESOME custom enclosure!!! O_O Much better than anything I've ever managed to put together :P Very cool

[Faith]

That is AMAZING! Hands down one of the best cages/tanks I've seen.

[Pluke]

Very cool setup man, what kind of crabs do you have in there? Has your pacman ever tried to eat them? o_O

[lilblack94gt]

Amazing! That enclosure is beautiful!

[Bruce]

That is amazing!!! Wish I was that creative!

[Faith]

I showed my husband this, even he was in major awe (he did construction work for 12 years and said he'd have never thought of something like that.) I wanted to ask in my other post as well, does he ever attempt to eat the crabs?

[Bruce]

How deep is that water in the pool? That's an awesome pic of him on the Lilly pad!

[Rick Mazzante]

Thanks for the replies guys =] thought no one was gonna see it =[ right now i have 3 fiddler crabs in it, 6 ghost shrimp, and a dozen rosey reds, 2 fiddler crabs MIA (eaten lol) the pool is 5 inches deep, no leaks thank god, reptifogger keeps things nice and moist, had 2 tree frogs happily living in there (they would never leave the top so no issue with mr pacman) but the hole where my light is they escaped from, found waste in the light dome. kinda upset on that but I learned.

I want to experiment with the foam background kinda thing and be able to make 2 nice waterfalls for the revamp of this cage. If anyone can't point me towards like top rated tutorial or way that would be excellent. Found a bunch of post here and on youtube just looking to see what you guys would recommend (Great stuff, eco earth, peat moss mix)

Thanks guys!

[Pluke]

I'm gonna go ahead and suggest taking out the rest of the fiddler crabs.. I'd hate for your frog to get some major impaction problems from eating them. They get impacted from things as small as mealworms/superworms.. just imagine what a crab can do.