Paco - my new baby Pacman

[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.