Can i feed my pacman crickets that have small wings starting to grow? Please help!

[anapolis]

hey,
i have benji in coco fiber, its quite moist and has a 20x20 cm heater covers about just under half the bottom of the cage,
Thank you for all your help
J.G.

[anapolis]

oh and sorry but could you link the pacman guide, if its no trouble of course,, i cant seem to find it
Thank you
J.G

[Tongue Flicker]

Here you go

Frog Forum - Pacman and Horned Frogs - Ceratophrys - Care and Breeding

[Mentat]

Hello and welcome to FF! Insects should be sized same as distance between frog eyes. Otherwise frog can get impacted from undigested parts like the head. Crickets should be gut loaded for 24-48 hours with carrots, lettuce, oats and cherios. A better staple food are Canadian night crawlers. You can get the not dyed ones at bait shops. Will need to cut into 2 in. pieces from the pointy end. Once frog reaches 3 in. can feed whole ones.

Substrate should be mixed with dechlorinated tap water until damp and clumps in fist but does not drips water out.

Please remove heat pad from under substrate because it can overheat the frog. Relocate heat pad to an enclosure side and add a red bulb or ceramic heat emitter in a dimmer dome if needed to reach 82-84F during day with a few drops temperature at night. Good luck !

[anapolis]

hey,
is it absolutely necessary for the heater to be on the side, because once i take this one off, it wont re-stick, he does have about 2/3 of his tank without the heater, in it 1/3 of the area has the heater under it.
wouldn't he know that he is overheating?
thank you
j.g.

[Mentat]

Air temperature should be 82F or around 28C. In order to reach that; your substrate will be way warmer to the point of being too hot. Just stick a thermometer probe on substrate above the glass bottom where heater pad is located and measure the temperature in there.

Your frog instinct over thousands of evolutionary years has taught it to bury when it's hot into the cool ground. Problem is; you have reversed nature's heat situation in your enclosure. The frog isn't going to figure that out and it will overheat while trying to cool down.

There are tapes (i.e. high temperature duct tape) you can use to reaffix the pad on the enclosures side. Just be carful when removing it, so that the interior wiring does not get damaged .

[anapolis]

hello again,
benji just went through a week or so of impaction, i Did everything, the pedialyte, and honey baths, an finally it worked. i am just wondering how long i should wait until i start him back on his regular feeding of 3-5 crickets? i gave him 1 cricket about a day after he pooped. He pooped ALLOT.
Thank you
J.G