so, I joined this forum solely to ask about my new frog because I don't know where else to turn short of taking it to a vet. I went to a reptile expo in Phoenixville, PA this past Saturday and came home with a juvenile pacman frog. the vendor said it and its siblings had just morphed 5 - 6 weeks ago.

I set up the frog in a medium-sized "critter keeper" with a shallow water dish (with bottled spring water) and Eco-earth as bedding. for humidity I mist twice a day with a spray bottle (again, bottled spring water is used), and I got a mini heating pad that I placed on the far-right side of the cage (not underneath it). I got one of those crappy stick-on thermometers; 70 and 75 are illuminated usually, so the temperature is somewhere around there. I'm going to get him a better thermometer on Friday when I get paid.

now, onto my concern. I got the frog on Saturday. on Sunday, it ate two wax worms...and has not eaten since. I can't entice this frog to eat anything at all, now. before, I'd taken him out and put him in a mini critter keeper free of bedding or anything to make it easier for him to eat, and it worked. now I put him in there with two very small crickets, and all he does is jump around like he's trying to get out. he isn't interested in the crickets at all. so, I put him back in the bigger critter keeper and put the crickets in with him to maybe give him a chance to eat undisturbed while I'm at work. I don't expect him to have eaten by the time I get home.

I haven't seen any evidence of poop in his cage yet, and at this point I just don't know what else I can do. once I get paid I'll have the means to move him to a 5-gallon in which I can better control the temperature and humidity, but I don't know if I should get him a heat lamp as I've read a lot of mixed things about the use of a lightbulb. I'm thinking I may just get a larger heating pad, I don't know.

I'm going to offer him waxworms again when I get home from work today, but, I'm not hopeful that he'll eat because ever since Sunday he's been just acting like he's afraid of all of his food and of me and of everything else. I know juveniles need to eat regularly while they're still growing, and the last thing I want is for him to starve to death. I'm taking more of a "feed without handling" approach to avoid stressing him out, but for the past two days, that hasn't yielded any results.

is there anything else I can do to convince the little dude to eat? hopefully adding a photo will work from my phone. he doesn't seem to have any ailments at all but I'm concerned that he may have lost a little bit of body mass since I got him.

-- I should probably add that this isn't my first frog, but it is my first pacman frog. I have two ACFs, ages 15 and 5, and a pair of WTFs, that I got as juveniles and have had for nearly five years.