Hey gang,
I have kept a pacman frog for awhile now, but I still like to look at care articles from time to time to see if there is anything I can change to make my frog's life better. The thing that concerns me is that I have seen many care articles that say to feed the adult frogs 3-4 times a week as much as they can't eat in a sitting! It's no wonder I see so many pics of morbidly obese frogs. I understand pacmans are supposed to be kind of chunky, but the instructions for feeding are leading to a growing population of unhealthily fat frogs! I think that maybe we as keepers need to take a look at how wild frogs behave. They sit and wait for a meal to pass by and well, you know the rest. But the next meal may not come for WEEKS. Let it be known I am not proposing we starve our frogs, but I think we need to consider spacing meals a little farther apart. I understand our frogs are not in the wild, but we need to realize that millions of years of evolution has tuned this animal to be a certain way. They would not get huge meals many times a week in the wild, and their bodies are designed to handle that. I have an adult male cranwells that has eaten 2-3 times a week a diet of varied insects, with pinkies once a month. He has become a little heavier than what I consider to be a healthy pacman. I am going to experiment with spacing his meals out more, and try to slim him down to a healthy specimen. I encourage you all to take what I have said into consideration, and perhaps be able to keep our frogs happier and healthier. Thanks for reading!