My Pacman Hasn't Eaten in 3 Months

[Atari]

They indeed do from what i've heard, but only for a month to two months. My frog will be approaching 4 months soon. I wasn't worried at first but now everyone is telling me something is definitely wrong with him so it's got me stressed. If I'm freaking out over nothing though, that would be really good news!

[monster]

Hi, I think your frog is fine and has just slowed down for the winter. My 1 and couple month old female did this all winter also. She went from eating once a week to eating maybe once a month. She didn't form the hard skin that they get when in full estivation but she would bury for weeks on end and just get up to shed/poop/ eat and then right back down. The last 4 days since it has warmed up she has been up everynight and last night and the first night she ate like there was no tomorrow, but I will go back to the once a week feeding now that she has been stuffed with worms. I also kept temps and humidity the same as it always is and she still went abit dormant, I believe they can really feel changes in pressure in the air stuff and that's why they do it even though keep things the same in there tank. All and all I think he should be ok but if you do feel there is something wrong maybe take him for a trip to the vet. Also if he isn't eating and you feel he needs a little boost of energy you can give him a bath with pedialyte in it. Make sure it is the unflavoured kind ( it will be clear ) make a mix of it with a 1:10 ratio. So for every 1 oz of pedialyte add 10 oz of declorinated warm water and let him sit in this for about 20 mins in a nice quiet and dark room and you can put a towel over the tub to keep the heat in. This should give him a nice a little boost of energy, I gave mine one of these before dinner the other night and it helped her a lot. Hope this helps abit and yes you are right when he does start eating again try and get him off the mice and get him eating something else, mice all the time is not good for them.

[Atari]

Thanks Cory, that makes me feel a little more at ease. I haven't heard of the pedialyte thing before, I may try that =) Mine also hasn't gotten the hard sack from estivation and is very responsive and vocal while I clean so I didn't think that had anything to do with it. Like you are saying, you frog at least ate some while mine hasn't touched anything in 3 and 1/2 months and spits out anything I put in his mouth so that was my biggest concern. Hopefully there will be a change in him soon!

[monster]

Even though she ate a few times she wasn't very eager to get it into her mouth, I would kind of have to bug her with it till she would eat it. She would never eat more then one big nightcrawler. If It was up to her she would have probably been happy with nothing, it was more for me to put my mind at ease knowing she had ate something. And to be very honest I shouldn't have even done that, I should have just let her be. She is a grump on a normal day, you should see how mad she gets when you disturb her from her beauty rest or annoy her with food she doesn't want. I think she ate out of anger not because she was hungry. L.O.L

[Atari]

So, it's been over another month that has gone by and still nothing. My frog hasn't eaten in almost 5 months now and though he's still acting totally normal, I've begun to see the weight loss. I tried the pedialyte thing and all it did was make him hope around and vocalize more. He still will spit out everything I put in his mouth and I'm worried I'm just stressing him out by doing this but it just looks like he's starting to deteriorate now and I don't want him to die =( Any other tips of suggestions?

[jasonm96]

What are you using for heating? And is the substrate moist?

[monster]

Hey sorry to hear things haven't gotten better. IMO you may want to try looking for a herp vet, they can see the frog and do tests that we cant do over the internet and if hes loseing weight it may be time for the trip. The one I was talking about of mine that had slowed down is now up every night for the last few weeks and is eating normally, this is what is making me think he needs to go the vet and that there is something else wrong with him besides just slowing down for a few months. Most the time when these guys estivate once they wake up they have 2 things on there mind, food and some loving so its not normal he doesn't want to eat if this was case.