New to Pacmans.

[Mentat]

Need the enclosure environment to exactly match the Pacman frog needs. Thats 82F (adults can handle to 84F) during the day and high 70's at night. Will also need to maintain 70-80% humidity with either misting or installing a humidifier into the enclosure controlled by a hygrotherm or similar.

The temperature in the house could be tolerated by other species like American toads, Grey Tree frogs, and similar. However, will still need to mist them in the Winter when humidity bottoms out to the teens.

[JDS]

I went ahead and ordered 100 dubia roaches that have at least 1 breeding pair in them, some flukers water crystal to start, a 8w(small) zoo med UTH, zoo med rheostat(manual one), and a analogue temperature and humidity gauge all for the startup of a culture in a 18 gallon sterilite container. Basically I'm aiming to fine tune my temp and humidity control with the dubia before I work on keeping the pacman. Only problem I can foresee now is that even with a rheostat I may not be able to use the UTH on the sterilite container since I read that only the 4w mini is plastic safe.

And for some reason I let my nephew convinced me to take in what looks like 2 adult fowlers toads, and 4 sub adults that look like they hatched this year. They're wild caught so I'll at least make sure they're healthy before turning them loose again. Same with the juveniles unless for some reason they grow on me.

As for picking out my pacman my problems will be finding one once I'm ready for it. Only one local pet store had one last I checked this week, and thankfully it was also the one that I've heard deals with reputable breeders. As for the color. An albino or apricot doesn't look to bad, but I highly doubt I'll be able to find one local.

On a side note, I'll need to know where to mount an UTH on the side of the pacmans enclosure since a heat lamp is out the question. Reason being I don't exactly want my parents dogs to get burnt by it, or the cat they have to decide the pacmans tank is the best place in the house to lay and warm itself on.