Hello,
As the title suggests, I am new to Pacman frogs, but I have some experience with salamanders and African Clawed Frogs. I purchased my little Pacman about two days ago. I have been watching the forums and doing my research. Temperature is 80-81F in the day and drops to 75-76F in the night. The Pacman is bigger than a quarter but smaller than a pingpong ball. I have some questions and some problems I would like some advice on.
I have the little guy in a 10 gallon already, because my cats can tip over a critter keeper. They don't seem to notice him much in there unless the crickets are moving a lot. I have read just about every feeding thread there is on the forum, but I can't get the little guy to eat what the Petstore told me he should. They said he had been eating about 3 crickets a day, and there were large crickets in with him when I got him. I had read on this forum that he should be fed something a little smaller (those crickets were almost the length of the frog!) so I got mediums. I have been able to get him to eat about one cricket a day so far. Is this adequate? I'm used to all my other amphibians that chow down endlessly, so a frog not being hungry is a little strange to me, especially a species that is supposed to eat voraciously. I think he may still be adjusting. He seems scared of me still, and he tucks his eyes down when I put a cricket close.
Eventually this guy was supposed to be a class pet (a look only, no touching class pet). I'm not sure I want to do this now, with him being so shy. No kids would ever come into contact with him, but I don't want to make him move to a new building. I was going to wait until next year after he got large, so he could get used to being tong fed, ect. I'm not sure what I want to do now.
Any tips on feeding? Would a Pacman be okay as a "hands off" class pet for observation only? I might just take him in a few days a year to visit...





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