Does PacMan clean itself?

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

He is shedding his skin.
Frogs normally eat their old skin.
I wouldn't peel any old skin off of him it might hurt him.
but a soak in water will help loosen it and it will come off by its self.

The frog does have a water bowl it can get into if it wants to?
Since I do weekly soaks for mine and he has never used the water bowl I took mine out.

[DVirginiana]

Yeah, he's just shedding. If he has a huge amount of dried substrate or it seems to be sticking, you can soak him or something. Mine is pretty chill, so if she has a bunch of dried substrate on her when she comes out of her burrow to shed I will very gently pour a little of her misting water over her back to get the larger chunks of it off (she's pretty calm and it doesn't seem to bother her at all).

[reptifrog]

yeah when I first got mine I noticed bits of skin that's came off that was still stuck to him but after a few days in the tank he was coated in eco earth due to burying himself but the next day it was out of its depression he made and had made another but not as deep about 5cm away from the old one ( I filled the old one back in, and now in the new one has buried its self again) and he looked really clean not one bit of eco earth on the top of him and I know he hasn't been in the bowl as it is still clean but haven't found no goo so he might of ate it

[Beep617]

Thanks! My first thought was the he was shedding, but from what I've read different places it seemed like shedding isn't very common. Plus, I thought it would have been dry and this was more gooey. He's done it a few times since I've had him a week or so before Christmas. Was the weird squirty sound part of the shed process? Or was he just making noise?

[Hypnotic]

Shedding is very common. I've seen some of my frogs wash themselves, especially my female who never bathes. So when I drop her into her waterdish, she takes a nice long bath, and the thing that's really amazing is that these fat frogs can reach their heads with the hind legs. They must be yoga masters.

[mchell43]

I love to watch Rolo shed so cute the way he opens his mouth and wiggle his back legs, its great !