skinny frog

[Maverick]

In the morning

[Mentat]

I'm not sure about your present situation and if you or parents can take corrective action; but bringing the daytime temps up to 84-85F are paramount to your frog's short and long term health. That is the priority issue to correct right now.

Do please look at the excellent care article linked before and try to make your Pacman's enclosure as close to it as possible. If by any chance you are getting conflicting information at other locations; then it's your choice which to follow. However, anyone advising keeping a Pacman in lower temps is plain wrong. If you want to learn more about these frogs here is a good reference book: Amazon.com: Horned Frogs: Plus Budgett's Frogs (Advanced Vivarium Systems) (9781882770885): Philippe De Vosjoli: Books . Good luck !

[Lija]

all right, here are copied your answers from your previous thread please reply to these in question ( in red)

2. # of inhabitants - specifically other frogs and size differences-5
3. Humidity-around 80%
4. Temperature-around 70
what are you using for measuring it? please provide the exact measurements, you said temps are on 76F day, what are your night temps? as Carlos said you gotta find the way to raise temps to 80-82 ( day), 75-78 ( night).5. Water - type - for both misting and soaking dishwater from-filtered water holder
from what i understood you got a water conditioner and using it, is it right?6. Materials used for substrate-eco earthdid you change it after you switched to treated water? if not, you need to do so and use treated water for expanding eco earth?

7. Enclosure set up i.e. plants (live or artificial), wood, bark and other materials.-fake plant
- How were things prepared prior to being put into the viv.at the pet store?

8. Main food source-crickets
i suggest you add some variety (nightcrawlers, hormworms, dubia). crickets are not the most nutritional food out there.

9. Vitamins and calcium? (how often)-1x week but ill do it 2x week
you should use ca/vit d3 powder 2xweek and once a week multivitamins

10. Lighting-flukers night light 25watt
11. What is being used to maintain the temperature of the enclosure-heat lamp

12. When is the last time he/she ate-probably yesterday.please answer the current situation, when did she ate last?

13. Have you found poop lately-not since I first got him about 3weeks ago
2 days ago that big one right?

14. A pic would be helpful including frog and enclosure (any including cell phone pic is fine)-k
15. How old is the frog-2-3 months
16. How long have you owned him/her-3weeks
17. Is the frog wild caught or captive bred-I think captive
18. Frog food- how often and if it is diverse, what other feeders are used as treats-thinking about a stewart little
19. How often the frog is handled-sometimes

20. Is the enclosure kept in a high or low traffic area-what does that mean?
it means how much stuff if going on around the cage, low traffic would be bedroom where you just sleep and high traffic - say living room where there is lot going on constantly, tv, people, music, movement.

21. Describe enclosure maintenance (water changes, cleaning, etc)-will change water and other than that nothing to clean

[Maverick]

humidity is above 75%
repti safe
cocofiber and big rocks
i did force feed him crickets with calcium this morning
he pooped a huge log 2 days ago
medium low traffic
and should i put him up stairs where its warm and no one goes up there except me

[Lija]

how long ago did he ate himself? are 3 sides of your tank covered?

[Maverick]

how long ago did he ate himself? are 3 sides of your tank covered?

no the tank isnt covered except i put a small blanket on one side and i put a blanket over his tank making it dark for him.and he rarely eats by himself.

[Lija]

ok, then that is what you need to do, the goal here is for a frog to eat himself, in order to do so he needs to feel safe and be in proper environment, we'll get there step by step. so:
cover 3 sides of your enclosure with something, fish tank background, piece of paper, drawings anything that floats the boat and is not see through. what size is your enclosure and what size is your frog?
did you manage to raise up our temps? it is very important!
please do not take him out, handle, touch, etc for now. how does he behave usually - buried deep, not at all, sitting in one spot, moving all the time? please describe.
do not force feed. it is very very stressful for a frog and is used only in critical cases when you don't have any other options. you say he rarely eats himself, but he does occasionally, is it right? how many times approximately he ate himself over these 3 weeks that you have him?