Is this normal frog behavior?

[KerkeringJ]

Hey guys, so I've had a pacman frog for a week now. For the past week I've been feeding him crickets, but I'm trying to move onto worms. I've tried to feed him a few times only for him to refuse, and now he's sitting in his tank making these swallowing motions and opening his mouth. Is this normal behavior? If it's not, what should I do? Also, any tips onto converting pacman frogs to worms? Right now I'm using cut up nightcrawlers.

[KerkeringJ]

Here's a pic of him:

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[Hypnotic]

He's not swallowing, he is breathing. Keep at it with the feeding, don't give up easely, they can be quite stubborn!

[reptifrog]

my frog does the same its just normal behaviour all frogs do that with there throat

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Take a deep breath, relax. thats what the frog is doing.

[KerkeringJ]

Hey guys, I have another question. On Saturday I ran out of crickets and started buying nightcrawlers. I've been chopping them up into half inch pieces (my frog is a little less than 2" from nose to tail), and my frog has shown zero interest in eating them. They always die before he's interested and dry up. He hasn't eaten since Saturday as far as I can tell. Any tips on getting him to eat? He buries most of the time, and when I try to dig him up to feed he's too scared to eat.

I thought the problem might have been temperature, so I insulated the tank on Monday. He's seemed a lot more active and now buries on all sides of the tank, but he still doesn't eat. Any tips? Insulated with styrofoam board by the way, taped two layers worth all around the back and sides. Pretty sure temperature is good.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

First of all don't you monitor the enclosures temperature with some kind of thermometer?
Since your frog is still pretty young it needs temps from 80 to 85F during the day and 75 to 80F at night.

Another reason why it might be a little more active now is that with the sides covered it feels more secure.

And your frog is big enough to eat a entire night crawler. But leaving them on the substrate or in a dish is not a good idea.
Use plastic or rubber tipped tongs to feed the frog. just rub the worm gently across the frogs lips.
be patient it will take a little time.
When it gets hungry enough it will eat it.