I need help with Guillermo del Froggo (my pacman)

[Sajuuk Khar]

I think this is common with these frogs. If you read the forums you will see a lot of threads about pacman frogs stopped eating. Mine is exactly the same way. She is a year old now, and will no longer eat on her own no matter what I do. I have to do assisted feeding by opening her mouth and slipping in worms.

I have been doing this with success for several months, but lately she has been spitting out the food I put in, so I am running out of options on how to feed her.

Wish there was something more I can say to help you, but if you figure out how to get them to eat on their own, I'd love to know how.

[spiderbakesale]

Well, it might not be a real fix but I let him sit underground for a week and just today I carefully uncovered his face and used a mister to rain a gallon of water on the tank.

The rainy season has arrived, Guillermo del Froggo.

The good news is he started wiggling. And opening his mouth. And he started to eat his shed! He started to actively be a frog!

We just did this so he's still wiggling and shedding and such, but I'm feeling absurdly confident that he's going to be more active and actually eat on his own. Fingers crossed!

I'll update when I wake up if he's moved anywhere.

[alane]

Sounds kind of normal. Pacman frogs seem to have a rather low metabolism and although they can eat a lot of food in one bite, they can also sit contentedly for weeks after that meal.

One trick I found is: Watch for when they shed. When the frog is swallowing it's skin, you have a second where you can introduce food easily with tongs when its mouth is open, and the frog will likely accept it.

My adolescent pacman had its first night crawler last night. Froggy isn't getting a food trigger from this slow moving worm. Hasn't eaten in a week so I know its hungry. But, I am able to introduce food during a shed. The worm went half way down, came a quarter of the way back up, then went all of the way down.

I love to watch it when they do the "whole body swallow adjustment".

[monster]

Hi, your frog is more then likely going through a dormant stage due to winter and lower temps. If you want him to wake up you can try to up the temps and give it a heavy mist, like you were saying you want him to think its the rainy season. This is why he doesn't want to eat more then likely and hes staying buried, and if this what hes doing you don't want to force him to eat. If that food sits in there for to long your frog can go septic. The shed skin in the water was more then likely the mucus sac they make around themselves and this is why he didn't eat it, he wasn't ready to shed. He will make this sac to retain water, and they slow their whole system down. So you can try to wake him up or you could just leave it be till he decides its time and he will wake up and go back to normal and he will be very hungry. Force feeding isn't really recommended unless you really have to, like if you were instructed by a vet or if it was losing weight. Its very stress full on them. And all though when its shedding yes hes opening his mouth its still not the greatest time to feed him, the frog isn't swallowing the food because it really wants to its because hes already swallowing something and he isn't going to just stop. If he isn't sick he will eat when hes ready, and if you aren't sure a trip to a vet for a checkup never hurts.

[spiderbakesale]

Took him out today with high hopes and got nothing until we put him back in his tank and gave him another little misting. I noticed he was really alert so I put the tongs in there and he had a bite response!!! The first in my care!

I tried to get a video of it but of course, it was one and done so I made pacman food for no reason. But! If this is one day after, then I have a good feeling after a week of "rains" he might be hungry enough to eat.

The only reason we were opening his mouth to insert food was because he was quite skinny. He pooped today, and it looked (gross) great, for poop.

Fingers eternally crossed! I really want to see him thrive not just survive.