Pacman Frog Won't Come Aboveground

[CinnamonPearl]

I only have mealworms as another food right now. I don't wanna give mealworms to a baby because of the exoskeleton. I was gonna start culturing Dubia roaches, so perhaps she'll like those better.

I'm gonna give her more time before I force feed. I've read about new frogs fasting for two weeks before they finally ate, so I'll wait a little bit more and then I'll try that. I don't want to unnecessarily stress her out.


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[CinnamonPearl]

I just checked on her, and there's only one cricket in the tank while there were six last night. Do you think she came back up to eat? Or did the crickets escape or burrow or something?

[cjbage]

have you been checking the temps and humidity in the tank ? Just want to make sure those are within the right range. And you need to be careful with leaving crickets in the tank with the frog for too long they are known to actually bite your frog and cause stress. Is the sides and back of the 10gallon covered with paper or background. If not you may want to do that. Check everything to make sure its within the guidelines on the Caresheet : Frog Forum - Pacman and Horned Frogs - Ceratophrys - Care and Breeding if everything checks out fill out the Trouble in the Enclosure post and paste it here and one of the more knowledgeable people should be able to help or give some advice

[WorldClassFrogCoddler]

I just checked on her, and there's only one cricket in the tank while there were six last night. Do you think she came back up to eat? Or did the crickets escape or burrow or something?

He definately came up to eat. They prefer to come out at night, to hunt when they feel safest. I too was amazed at the disappearing crickets but now I have seen it many times. Something about crickets must look delicious to a pacman frog, because they LOVE em! Too bad crickets aren't very nutricious.

I usually feed Bubba and then it burrows for around 3 days completely under, day 4 to 5 it's eyes will be out, day 6 or 7 it's whole body it out, that's how I know it's hungry. But it didn't start doing this reliably until it got used to me and my wife and the tongs.

I keep it quiet as a church when I feed him and that seems to help.

Good luck!

[PEatMoSS101]

ur pacamn is fine..keep ur depth of substrate at 2 inches ,this will keep frog eye level with prey..after some time ur frog wil hang out on top of it ..dont worry this is normal

[Rappo]

I have been having a similar problem with my juvenile pacman frog as well. Infact I have 4 in total and this is the second one that has done it, so I believe it is just a normal thing. One time my pacman was doing this and not eating the food I was putting in front of him when he was in the borrow. What I found to be the best thing to do in this situation is to get a small deli sized container and just fill it up a couple of centimeters with water. Then place both your frog and the prey item you are trying to get it to eat, and leave it alone. Usually after about 10-20 min it will eat. If not it might just not be hungry at that time, put him back and try again in 6 hours. By then he would eat.