help me set up a pacman home please

[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).

[brian c]

if i use some declorinator for fishes can he still be ok

[Mentat]

if i use some declorinator for fishes can he still be ok

Yes, myself use and recommend Seachem Prime .

[Lija]

Yes, myself use and recommend Seachem Prime .

Same one here

[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

[Lija]

I tried to breed, it is a smelly nightmare, they're escaping too. It is better just to buy, for me anyway.

[brian c]

well lija i never had that problem when i first got my lizard and crickets i just put some of that cling wrap on it and poked a lot of holes but now they have a actual lid that i found at walmart in the fish area cuz i was looking for some more fish food thats the 1 thing they cant ruin