Paco - my new baby Pacman

[Orchids00001]

I asked (and received) lots of help from the good people here at FF. I just wanted to say thank you and share a couple of pictures of my little guy. He must have known I went to get my camera because he was out and about where I could get a couple of good shots. I haven't disturbed him (much) since I got him so he could settle in and make himself at home. He's been eating now, every night for about a week. He's been getting one cricket a night dusted with Ca. Next weekend he'll get a cricket dusted with vitamins.

When I got him he looked a lot greener. Is that possible? He's an albino with beautiful ruby eyes.

Thanks again for everyone’s help!!!

-Andy

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Nice looking frog.

I have never had an albino before so I don't know if the green is normal or not.
I would guess so since my packman when I first got him was all green. thats why I named him Pepito
He looked like a green little pumpkin seed.

Here he is when I first got him last May.



And here he is a few days ago.



He has almost lost all of his green coloring.

[Orchids00001]

Oh my, what a beautiful frog! Pepito has much better posture than Paco. Paco looks like a water balloon with not enough water in it! LOL!

When do they stop growing? Pepito looks pretty big now. Very hansome frog.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

When I got him he was 17g now he's pushing almost 190g (after meal and before pee)
Not sure on the weight of a full grown frog but I have heard that 4 to 6inches in diameter is not uncommon.

I had to pick up his chin but he is a sweetheart and very calm. Never has tried to bite me.
Thats why I felt safe picking up his chin with my finger LOL

He is now wolfing down hopper mice like it is nothing.

When he got to 2 in STV I started giving him pinkie mice once a month.
Now he gets a hopper mouse.
BTW pinky , and hopper are different names of the stages of the growth cycle of a mouse.

FYI pinky, fuzzy, furry, hopper then full grown adult.

After feeding a mouse I don't offer anything for a few days to let him digest the big meal.
then I give him a soak in warm 80F dechlorinated tap water covered with a towel. ( he's very modest and likes his privacy LOL)
While he soaks I re hydrate his substrate and check for any poo then fluff it up with my gloved hands, just in case I missed a present .
By that time he has done his business and I return him to his home and he hoops around a bit. then finds a new spot and digs in.

[Mentat]

Baby frog looks good! Make sure you keep him around 82F during day with a small drop in temp at night. Long exposures to cold temps can cause permanent damage to internal organs.

Think could eat more than one cricket per day; just make sure you gut load them with carrots and lettuce and they are sized same as distance between frog's eyes. Have you tried feeding Night Crawlers? For your's, would cut them (from pointy end) same size as crickets. Latter in life you can cut them same as frog length and a 3 in. frog can handle them whole. Good luck !

[Flying Dutchman]

He looks evil with that red eye! But it´s a good looking baby!

[Orchids00001]

His enclosure is staying around 80 during the day and maybe a few degrees lower at night. I'm having trouble getting those two extra degrees. I'm going to change light bulbs and see what happens.
I tried the pointy end of a night crawler last weekend and he wouldn't have anything to do with it. I'll keep trying. One of these days he'll eat one.
Crickets are fed carrots, lettuce and bread.
One cricket is all he will eat. I've tried two, but he just ignores the second one. Once or twice he has lunged at the second cricket, but after the first lunge, he turns his head up at it.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

What size cricket, if it is a large adult that would be a good meal for your little one.
but give it a month and you will have to give him many crickets. lol

[Orchids00001]

What size cricket, if it is a large adult that would be a good meal for your little one.
but give it a month and you will have to give him many crickets. lol

I know the size of the crickets is suppose to be about the distance between the eyes, but Paco has been eating crickets that are slightly larger than that. With only one cricket eating critter, I'm only buying enough crickets to last a week. I've thought about raising crickets, but that seems to be a bit of an overkill.

When I first got Paco, I used the release and catch method of feeding: Release 12 crickets and let him catch them when he was hungry. Since then, I've been feeding Paco the crickets one at a time. That way I can dust them with the Ca or vitamin and know what he’s eating. I’ve been guiding the crickets to walk in front of him and this seems to work. Holding the cricket with tongs doesn’t. I’m hoping that using the tongs to coax the cricket will get him used to the tongs and associate them with feeding time.

I already have my desires for a strawberry pineapple morph and an apricot morph but will wait and make sure Paco does well with me. I don’t know why, but these frogs are fascinating to me. I just wish there were other critters I could put in his enclosure.

[GrifTheGreat]

You will need to offer more food. Babies need a lot of nutrition for proper health and growth. Offer whatever the frog will eat in 15 minutes. One at a time if necessary.