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    i am surprised to hear you claim that . My frog is in fine condition and as healthy as they come.As i hand raise the mice i feed her I feed the mice lettuce , crackers, cheese, peanut butter, and grains .their bones have a lot of calcium in them , that's about as gut loaded as you can get .FYI she will not eat crickets anymore nor does she care for worms . She will actively pursue a mouse giving her exercise . She gets humidified every day and lives in soft moss store bought not wild. i am no novice to raising reptiles or amphibians and my 50 gallon terrarium is large enough to house another one in there with a an easy way of keeping them separate with a simple modification to my tank but yet i can still allow them to communicate with each other and to coexist peacefully.I am not hurting my frog.shes a verey healthy large adult pacman frog that i raised form the size of a nickle.but ty for you opinion we are all entitled to them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TextualDeath View Post
    i am surprised to hear you claim that . My frog is in fine condition and as healthy as they come.As i hand raise the mice i feed her I feed the mice lettuce , crackers, cheese, peanut butter, and grains .their bones have a lot of calcium in them , that's about as gut loaded as you can get .FYI she will not eat crickets anymore nor does she care for worms . She will actively pursue a mouse giving her exercise . She gets humidified every day and lives in soft moss store bought not wild. i am no novice to raising reptiles or amphibians and my 50 gallon terrarium is large enough to house another one in there with a an easy way of keeping them separate with a simple modification to my tank but yet i can still allow them to communicate with each other and to coexist peacefully.I am not hurting my frog.shes a verey healthy large adult pacman frog that i raised form the size of a nickle.but ty for you opinion we are all entitled to them.
    I have never heard of anyone gutloading feeders with what you are using, most people use fresh fruits and vegetables. Get your frog off moss, moss can be swallowed during feeding and lead to impaction, be it store bought or wild found. Mice aren't a good staple, So far I've only seen you talk about mice as food, what else do you feed? You are aware that a diet consisting of mostly mice is bad for your frog right? Because you seem to talk about feeding mice like you do it on a weekly basis.
    I've owned my adult female for a year and a half+-, she has seen 5 mice in total since she was an adult, those 5 were fed on a montly basis and currently, I've decided to schedule 1 mouse once every 3-4 months.
    If your feeding mice for the calcium, just dust other feeders, it's far more effective and easy to digest. Horned frogs eat rodents in the wild, but not as a staple.
    Also, I've read you kept your pacman with american bullfrogs? Never mix different species, while it might go right once, maybe twice, it's an accident waiting to happen, and incase of pacmans, don't let them share a tank for the following reasons: They aren't group animals, even with a devider, frogs sitting near eachother can pass illness onto eachother, especially if you get a new frog. The only reason I kept my babies in a tank with a devider was because they are siblings, both from the same mother & father, purchased at exactly the same place and time. I would never buy a new pacman frog and risk it with putting them in a tank together.

    Edit: Also, please don't brush off all the helpfull advice offerd by the people here, the reason why we are all here is to share our frogs with eachother and learn the right way to take care of them. The last person I saw brushing off advice on a different forum, ended up with a dead frog and I think that's something all of us want to prevent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TextualDeath View Post
    i am surprised to hear you claim that . My frog is in fine condition and as healthy as they come.As i hand raise the mice i feed her I feed the mice lettuce , crackers, cheese, peanut butter, and grains .their bones have a lot of calcium in them , that's about as gut loaded as you can get .FYI she will not eat crickets anymore nor does she care for worms . She will actively pursue a mouse giving her exercise . She gets humidified every day and lives in soft moss store bought not wild. i am no novice to raising reptiles or amphibians and my 50 gallon terrarium is large enough to house another one in there with a an easy way of keeping them separate with a simple modification to my tank but yet i can still allow them to communicate with each other and to coexist peacefully.I am not hurting my frog.shes a verey healthy large adult pacman frog that i raised form the size of a nickle.but ty for you opinion we are all entitled to them.
    I was just concerned about her eating so many mice because too many mice can result in corneal lipid deposits which lead to blindness as no light can get through to the retina.

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    Hypnotic sorry for off topic again, just want to clarify for people who might be reading this and thinking it is ok to feed mice only and keep on a moss or keep these guys in group so the can socialize.
    IT IS NOT OK!

    there's no really a way for us to convince you Text that it is not good for them to be kept and fed like that, but if you want a constructive discussion we sure can do so in a separate thread, as you see a lot of people are concerned for your frog. she is not egg bound, she is overweight , and i don;t need to see a pics to tell you this. I'll just say feeding like you do it is like for human to live on hamburger and french fries diet, doesn't matter if it is your won grown potatoes and your own raised "meat".
    in time fat deposits will appear in eyes ( thus blindness) and otehr vital organs, and only matter of time when it is gonna be too late. please please for your frog sake reconsider her diet.
    Save one animal and it doesn't change the world, but it surely changes the world for that one animal!

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    Allright guys, here is the update: I soaked Buddah in a lukewarm bath with 3 drops of honey for 30 minutes, gently rubbing both sides in circular motion, no poop at all. His sides felt flat, no hardness at all, so we might be able to assume he's going under the substrate, I'l tell my friend to check for it.
    Also, I measured little Buddah, he measures in at 8CM (3.14") and my friend should have him around or over a year now, I've looked this up and it seems males can become 2.5"-5", so his growth does not seem stunted but he does appear to be very small. I've rubbed a worm over his lips for several minutes, then tryed a locust, wich he both declined. I then decided it was enough and just put the locusts in his enclosure.
    If there is anything else we can do, please tell us.
    (afterwards I did a regular soak)
    Edit: it seems the site I looked the size up on isn't reliable at all, also says these frogs can be kept at 60 degrees during the night, so could someone please tell me the correct sizes males and females should be between?
    Thanks in advance!
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