help me set up a pacman home please

[brian c]

ok i think i get it just a little ok no sand though i was not gonna use it anyways and humidity and temp for my fish tanks they are usually 76 degrees and about humidity can i just have a water bowl in it and do i need a gauge for humidity and what kind of plants would i need to buy because i would like live plants and if i get a lot of live plants will i ever need to clean out the poop becausew i have heard of them having teeth and drawing blood and im not gonna lie im actually a bit scared its ;like a big foot long piece of flab with teeth no offense frogs and how do i make a tank divider and only one frog is good with me

[Lija]

Brian, did you read a care sheet?

Yes you need:
- hydrometer and thermometer, get digital, analog ones are garbage
- water conditioner for all water you are using, including the one you expand exo earth (plantation soil) with. You can get reptile specific, but any fish tank ones will do. I like prime the best, cheap and lasts long time.
- fine coconut fibre - eco earth or plantation soil, get bricks, more economical this way. You will need to change it every month, water - every day.
- shallow water bowl, i like ceramic plant dishes the best, they are very cheap and usually just right size. I think they are under 1$ at walmart.
- plant of sorts - any plastic or silk plant, hanging or not ad long as frog can hide under is fine. Any terrarium decor if you'd like to, but something to cover 3 sides if your tank, fish tank background works awesome. But anything not see through would do.
- ca with vit d3 powder and multivitamin powder
- something you will use to heat up the tank - infrared lamp + dome or heat mat that has to be attached to the side.
- mister , hand mister or humidifier.

[Lecroixe]

Brian, did you read a care sheet?

Yes you need:
- hydrometer and thermometer, get digital, analog ones are garbage
- water conditioner for all water you are using, including the one you expand exo earth (plantation soil) with. You can get reptile specific, but any fish tank ones will do. I like prime the best, cheap and lasts long time.
- fine coconut fibre - eco earth or plantation soil, get bricks, more economical this way. You will need to change it every month, water - every day.
- shallow water bowl, i like ceramic plant dishes the best, they are very cheap and usually just right size. I think they are under 1$ at walmart.
- plant of sorts - any plastic or silk plant, hanging or not ad long as frog can hide under is fine. Any terrarium decor if you'd like to, but something to cover 3 sides if your tank, fish tank background works awesome. But anything not see through would do.
- ca with vit d3 powder and multivitamin powder
- something you will use to heat up the tank - infrared lamp + dome or heat mat that has to be attached to the side.
- mister , hand mister or humidifier.

I have an analog thermometer and it seems to be working fine for me but I keep my humidity and temperature pretty stable. 70"F Is the lowest my temp gets at any part of the day, and 80% humidity all the time.

A portion of my terrarium also has some moss to hold moisture. I was advised to change it once every two weeks but I have gotten away with the moss being reliable for up to a month.

Water conditioner is also very important, or you can opt to make it easier and buy bottled spring water jugs. (I had done research and I do my daily misting and water dish changes with spring water.) It has the right water properties/qualities as far as I understood and for three months or so now Keropi seems to be doing just fine. If you don't use water that has the correct necessities you run the risk of leaching vital nutrients and minerals from your frog, or your frog absorbing toxic substances, i.e. chlorine used to make tap water drinkable/bacteria free.

Plastic plants can be a hazard if you think that the leaves or pieces of the plant could prove to be a poking injury. You don't want your frog to poke his eye because he just happened to jump into a plant to try and hide but instead stabbed himself in the face. As for real plants, I have heard that they will try to dig under and hide beneath plants, so expect real plants to be uprooted if not carefully placed. I buried my plastic plants low enough in the substrate that he can't possibly burrow to them bottom grids that hold the plant down in the substrate.

[brian c]

oh..i did not read a care sheet but what plants do you think that would be good and do i need moss?and what kinds of vitamins and that powder to dust its crickets with

[Lija]

No you dont need moss, if ingested with very high probability might cause impaction.

Lecroixe, you must be a lucky one that have working analog gauge they are very unreliable and not once were a cause of frogs death. I woundt trust them or recommend anyone to, unless you have a backup to constantly check up their readings.

Plastic plants wont cause any injuries they are actually one of the best to use to pacman frogs, you can sanitize them if needs to, silk are good too, but if any problems occurs, it is hard to disinfect them the way you might need to, in that case you will need to grow them away. The only risk with plastic plants might be if it is old and disintegrating, pacman might ingest a piece of it if fed close to it, but in all years i've dealing with animals i've heard only one case like that.
Live are the worst for pacman frogs, i wont go over why, i recently wrote about it somewhere here.

Powder - in reptile section of the store look for any powder ( in small bottles) that would say multivitamins and another bottle that says ca with vit d3.

Water - yes you can use bottled spring water or use water conditioner for your tap water. I very rarely use spring water, it is too expensive to use in quantities i need. Small bottle of prime lasts about 6 month in my household.

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

[brian c]

thanks

[Lecroixe]

Yup, I use one of those Zoomed Terrarium Dual Temperature-Humidity analog gauges. I think people generally run into issues with analog gauges because they put it in a bad position. For example mine is exactly in the center of the tank to account for a general idea of what the inside of the tank is looking like; however I have the tank divided into warmer/cooler sides (my cooler side has some plastic vine plants that suction cup to the top to provide shade from the light/heatlamp I have positioned over the terrarium.

I've read stories about how people put it at the very top of the terrarium and expect it to be pinpoint accurate, but in reality they're just measuring the air at the top of the terrarium and not where the Pacman actually lives.

As for the water, I don't mist very religiously due to the glass lid, and Keropi does not always jump into the water dish I have provided (I change the water whenever he uses it, and with the eco substrate it's pretty easy to tell when the water is dirty or not). Where my Pacman is housed I prefer the closed glass lid over a open net screen because temperature and humidity would be too problematic to control in a house where I have already mentioned; has A/C running 24/7. The water in the substrate would practically evaporate and my poor pacman would probably freeze to death in a house that runs at 68"F. Since I only own one pacman, I don't see buying spring water too much of an issue; I can understand it being a financial issue when the owner has more than a single frog or other animals that require the same kind of water (i.e. other amphibians or reptiles).

[DigitalPunk]

oh..i did not read a care sheet but what plants do you think that would be good and do i need moss?and what kinds of vitamins and that powder to dust its crickets with

Brian I linked you the care sheet to help you out. It is always best to read and research and learn on your own and then come here and ask for clarification or to do a gut check on things you read to make sure you understood them. It is frustrating to offer up assistance and then have it ignored in favor of asking a seemingly endless stream of questions when you haven't done anything to learn on your own in this process.

Please read any and all care sheets you can find. Please post any questions you have after reading the care sheet. Please learn how to care for your animals to the best of your ability.

[brian c]

oh sorry i did read the care sheet but i have a short memory about things i have read so sorry and to be clear everybody i did read one

[brian c]

ok i just finished it for real this time and this is more of a side comment but when i was throwing out the old dirt in my cricket tank a 10 gallon tank i saw baby crickets but sadly it was to late when i saw them and another side comment how do you guys get some crickets to breed so fast that you always have food for them cuz my crickets arent in the mood a lot like i have only have seen babies once