Changing my Fantasy Pacman frog from a staple diet of crickets to nightcrawlers

[Misschievou2]

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for all the wonderful advice! I am so glad everyone contributed a little of there knowledge and I feel like I have a better understanding of what I am doing.

Today I fed Prince Charming II a few crickets and purchased a whole bunch of nightcrawlers in hopes of catching his interest. To no eval my froggie did not nibble. I took time to rest the nightcrawler on his leg or between his eyes but he was as cool as a cucumber. After a while he just decided to hop away. I do not want to by accident stress him out so I stopped after I noticed his pattern of hopping away.

Prince Charming II is a shy eater. Also he is a very big pooper. He left a huge poop in the water dish a few minutes ago. Maybe he is going to free up some room for this worm!

A lot of pacman frogs are very good eaters, mine is one of them but he isn't a random biter so unless he is very hungry he is not going to lounge at this whopper of a nightcrawler. What usually happens is I drop about 7 crickets in the tank and I go study or whatever activities I do throughout the day and within a few hours not a cricket in sight. I'll just find him in his little water dish acting innocent like nothing happened.

My plan is whatever side he bites at first - I plan on cutting it mid-way so he has 1/2 of the size. I would pre-cut them but I would rather have the whole worm moving around him than half the worm moving and the other side being still.

Please leave any clever ideas to persuade Prince Charming II, (the shy eater and the pool side pooper)to have a bite at this tastey nightcrawler! Maybe some good methods of catching crickets that strayed out of there cage... I just was plugging in my phone and I spotted one so I slammed it with my hand. God I hate crickets.... Thanks again!

[Lija]

be patient with him and starve him a little, he ate a few crickets that day so he might not be hungry enough to grab something he doesn't know, wait a few days and offer nigthcrawler only

[Misschievou2]

be patient with him and starve him a little, he ate a few crickets that day so he might not be hungry enough to grab something he doesn't know, wait a few days and offer nigthcrawler only

Very good plan! I will do this! Thanks! He hasn't eaten anything today but I am sure he will chew on anything i give him tomorrow!

[Misschievou2]

He ate a earth worm today but the weird thing is he keeps chewing at it after he swallows and makes this foamy noise and a little bit of foamy clear bubbly substance comes out. Is this normal? Doesn't sound appetizing to me.

[Namio]

He ate a earth worm today but the weird thing is he keeps chewing at it after he swallows and makes this foamy noise and a little bit of foamy clear bubbly substance comes out. Is this normal? Doesn't sound appetizing to me.

Haha yea this is normal. The "snot bubble" is from the mucus secreted by the earthworm. I laugh whenever that happens.

[Misschievou2]

Haha yea this is normal. The "snot bubble" is from the mucus secreted by the earthworm. I laugh whenever that happens.

Aw haha. you make it sound pleasant. Do you think my little froggie isn't going to eat earthworms because they secret this mucus?

[Namio]

Aw haha. you make it sound pleasant. Do you think my little froggie isn't going to eat earthworms because they secret this mucus?

I don't think so. Unlike "redworms" (small reddish earthworms), when injured, do secrete those "smells" that frogs won't like. Canadian nightcrawlers are not known to make that unpleasant mucus/flavor which deters frogs.

[WorldClassFrogCoddler]

be patient with him and starve him a little, he ate a few crickets that day so he might not be hungry enough to grab something he doesn't know, wait a few days and offer nigthcrawler only

Starving him a little sounds like bad advice but it worked for me too. I got worried he wouldn't eat but I read to just wait a couple days and let him get hungry, sure enough, when he was hungry he reappeared and wandered around looking for food. I find he hates tong feeding but the first bit of worm, he puts up very little fight. The fuller he gets, the more he refuses to bite, and when he's full he does the 180 degree turn to show he isn't interested, or hops away.