Ok so my brother got a pacman frog, and I see he wasnt taking great care of it because he was never around. I decided to take a look at it, and its so small and skinny looking. He said hes had it for months are its still VERY small looking, and when I touched it Icould feel its hips. Knowing very little, it still seems this is severly malnurished. It completely buries itself under the coconut fiber(I think) and it doesnt seem to be interested in eating, even when I dangle a cricket right in front of her. I'm afraid that she might of hurt herself when she went for the cricket one time, and hit the tweezers(That I bought at petsmart specifically for this, they're huge).
It has crickets available to eat, that are dusted, and a little water pool there. I'll take a picture and upload when I can. It has a humidifer but its broken so I constantly spray the entire cage with a spray bottle. I could use advise because I really hate to see something die, especially from neglect.
I doubt there's much you can do for it at this stage - it's really just a matter of time. Once these frogs start down this road it's very hard to bring them back. Your best bet is to locate an amphibian savvy vet and bring the frog to him/her.
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What I did so far was, completely cleaned out the cage, got new coconut fiber and completely washed all the stones out. I also picked up mealworms to see if he'd get interested in it, but no luck so far. There were so many times I thought he was dead because he didnt blink or anything, not even when I poked him did he move. After awhile I could get him to move, so obviously hes not dead, maybe just stressed. I put him in his new home and let him sit forawhile with a mealworm out. He felt kinda cold ( because I had him in a plastic tub till I could get all the new home ready) But now hes sitting and warming up, hopefully. I read a few things, He could be bored with crickets(It's why I got mealworms), the hundreds of baby crickets in his cage were stressing him( Its why I completely clean it out), and he's impacted(put him in slightly warm water to no avail). So I guess I'm gonna wait to see if his new home helps him out at all, if not, to the vet I go.
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