Pacman Powder Food Diet

[Tofuman]

Haw anyone else herd of this? I was at the Reptile Super Show in San Diego and they're was a Japanese guy there who was selling a powder food diet for Pacmans. Here's his site: PacmanFood

YouTube - PacmanFood of Samurai-Japan Reptiles

[Jeff Boyardee]

I've heard about it on other sites. I haven't heard anything good.

The base for it is fishmeal. Pacman frogs eat insects and other frogs in the wild, so fishmeal can't be a good start.

It also has soy in it. Soy is everywhere these days and most people think it's good for you, but I've seen conflicting reports like this:

"the soybean contains large amounts of antinutrients (toxins). First among them is hemagglutinin, a clot promoting substance that makes red blood cells clump together. Soy is rich in enzyme inhibitors that block the action of much needed enzymes required to digest proteins. These inhibitors are not deactivated during cooking. They can cause gastric distress and chronic deficiencies in amino acid uptake. Protein inhibitors and hemagglutinin are scientifically proven to inhibit growth."

If it makes its way to Canada, I won't be using it. I'll stick to a more "natural" diet for my frogs.

[PaulyMolitor]

ive looked int0 the powders awhile ago. it has only really been available recently and people have been hating on it but i think its good for those who dont like live bugs, worms, mice etc either handling and/or feeding them to the frog. also no other supplements are needed when giving the powder to pacs. all nutrients and calcuim is provided. the problem i heard from one guy who bought a samurai pac and the powder food is that the pac didnt go for it. i think the powder food is a safer route when you take parasites and other nasty stuff into account that live feeder food could transmit to your frog.

[chipcount]

I have used it and I think it is convenient. My larger pacs go for it but my little ones (that started off on crickets) seem to be hesitant. I dont use it all the time though and have used it only for about 3 weeks

[John]

Well the video is very good. I think if you could wean the frogs onto it then I don't see the harm. Sure it's not the most natural diet but it's a lot better than feeding with mice, etc. My main misgiving is that pacman frogs are notoriously difficult to convince to change foods.

[BG]

Hey guys, i brought this product cause I'm very interested feeding this to my frogs. Does anybody have any updated info,and has any one been using this food for a while now. Thank you in advance for any info.

[IvoryReptiles]

We did not have any issues with our frogs accepting it at all.
Please remember though, our frogs are tong fed often enough to know that when they see tongs, it's food.
We had some froglets who had just metamorphed and were being picky about eating and they accepted it and were just fine after that.
We also tried using carnivorous fish food pellets and ground them into a powder, added some calcium & vitamin powders and made a dough out of it and it worked just as well.

Good Luck with it, I hope your frog likes it!