Boy or girl?

[Felis]

Hi,

could you help me sexing my new pacman? It´s an about 4-5 years old C. cranwelli.

http://www.servimg.com/view/17655847/937

http://www.servimg.com/view/17655847/936

P.S.: Sorry for the links, direct upload of the pictures didn´t work.

[GRABibus]

I don't see nuptial pads, but, head shape and throat which seems to have a little bit grey color...I should say male.
Did you ear croaks ?

[Pyru]

It looks boy to me as well. I don't see pads to confirm though. I would expect a 4-5yr old cranwelli female to be bigger as well.

[Felis]

Hi,

thanks. The previous owner thought it was a female, but it looks more like a male to me, too. Then again, as far as I know, it never croaked and I didn´t notice nuptial pads while handling the frog (but I didn´t really pay attention).

[GRABibus]

Nuptial pads can appear later.
My ornata croaks and has a little grey color on the throat, so he is a male.
But he has no nuptial pads yet.

[Felis]

Hi,

it´s clearly a male. He´s doing fine and croaked several times now Nuptial pads are visible as well.

[Felis]

... some more links (sorry, I still didn´t figure out how to show pictures):

http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/17/65/58/47/p6291210.jpg
Feeding time

http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/17/65/58/47/p7051214.jpg
My frog taking a bath

http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/17/65/58/47/p7201210.jpg
Don´t mess with the wrong guy...

He´s a voracious eater, but he doesn´t like earthworms. He spits them out every time. Is this a common behaviour in some pacmans?

[Heatheranne]

It can be. Ours are extremely picky.

[Heatheranne]

Cute!

[GRABibus]

He´s a voracious eater, but he doesn´t like earthworms. He spits them out every time. Is this a common behaviour in some pacmans?

Yes, Pacman frogs are often picky eaters.
My male ornata was hunting all kinds of preys when he was a juvenile (Crickets, red runner roaches, little earthworms).
Now, he is a subadult, and he only hunts nightcrawlers, adult locusts.
He likes also dead mices with tong.
But, he doesn't like anymore hunting Dubia roaches or crickets...He only accepts them by force feeding with tong...

[Felis]

Ok, so I guess I don´t have to worry

My frog likes crickets (dusted, gut loaded), roaches, small fish, woodlouses etc. I prefer feeding him with forceps (I don´t think it has something to do with force feeding, I just hold the food in front of his snout and he takes it by choice) because it´s easier to control the amount of food that way. I might change that as soon as I have more experience; he didn´t always eat properly in the past and I´m still new to this species after all.