When is the ideal time to feed pacman frogs?

[jamien]

Update: I can't get him to eat again. I gave him another warm bath for a couple minutes but this time he didn't eat afterwards, he just went and burrowed again. I'm not sure what to do this time because he seems content on not eating.

[jasonm96]

Is there any chance you could show us a pic of your set up? You'll have to upload it to a website then copy and paste the link to this. It may still be trying to aestivate because the tank went too cool but it mind come out of it in a few days.

[jamien]

There's not much to take a picture of. He's in a 10 gallon aquarium with about 2-3 inches of eco earth, a fake plant, and a small water bowl. And I don't think he's aestivating. He moves when I touch him. He just seems totally uninterested in eating.

And the temperature is around 75-81. Of course I have to take the heat lamp off when I try to tong feed him and it drops down to around low 70s, but I don't think that would cause him not to eat.

[jasonm96]

Everything's spot on, it's worse when that's the case, harder to fix the problem if there isn't one but the frog. What I'd recommend would be to keep a steady temp between 78-80F during the day, obviously if you take the heat lamp off to feed that will be okay but at night let the temperature drop down to 74F. Try not to disturb the frog during the day and just feed at night when it's active. So the light you have is a daytime lamp, isn't it? Keep it on for 12 hours per day and near the daylight hours of your area. At night use something that won't disturb the frog too much, I personally only use night lights for like an hour then switch to complete darkness, I'm not convinced the animals can't see them and so I use a ceramic heat emitter or heat mat at night instead. If your frogs large enough try something like superworms, locust or roaches. My frog used to turn it's head up at crickets and still does sometimes. Try also feeding the frog less, if it's over 2 inches then you could go to every other day or so.

[jamien]

The problem is he isn't active whatsoever. if I didn't dig him up today he would have been totally buried for about 2-3 days now.

I know it sounds horrible but I've been so worried about messing up I've been considering taking him back to the pet store. I don't want anything bad to happen to him but he's not eating and he isn't even moving half the time. I love the little guy but he's been worrying me so much.

EDIT: and I keep the incandescent light on at all times because my room is absolutely freezing. I was told to keep it on at all times if my room is cold

[jasonm96]

I wouldn't do that, at least in your hands you can give him the attention and sort the problem but they won't. Is it a daylight bulb??? if so, they do not get kept on at all times and the result would be exactly what the problem here is

[jamien]

Its an incandescent 50 watt lightbulb.