I just bought a baby pacman frog 4 days ago and he's refusing to eat any crickets that I put in his 10 Gal tank. I live in South Florida, but it's been kind of cool for the last couple of days and I also like to run my AC really low when I sleep at night so I thought that heating was a problem so I bought a zoo med ceramic heat emitter. I have the heater on top of the cage pointing down at the mesh. The cermic heat emitter has a 60 watt bulb in it.I can feel the heat falling downward when I put my finger underneath it so I know it's working. The temps that I'm averaging are 79-82 during the day and around 75 at night. The humidity gage that my pacman tank came with never goes below 60%. I've been checking the eco earth in my frogs tank to see if I need to add more water and it seems like the eco earth is still as moist as it was when I first made it so I haven't added anymore. The frog has a water dish, but he hasn't hopped into it yet.

I have a couple of questions.


  1. Can my frogs tank do without the moss that the pacman kit came with because I noticed that mold started forming around the moss so I removed it?
  2. I didn't use the liquid that came with the kit that removes chlorine from the water because the guy at the pet store said that it didn't really matter and that he uses regular untreated water on his frogs all the time. Is what he told me true? My Frog isn't digging itself into the eco earth like it's supposed to so I'm concerned.
  3. Are my temps too low? "I'm averaging are 79-82 during the day to 75 at night."
  4. Is it just possible that my frog doesn't like crickets, should I try feeding him something else?