Impacted?

[frogmike]

I feed my baby pacs 1 pinky every day with calcium covered super worms, crickets, and an occasional wax worm thrown in the mix. As they grow older they stop eating so often and would rather have 1 or 2 mice a week. I breed mice, so there is no more $3 per mouse to burn me with! plus ther is usually a few pinkies for the little guys.

[pyxieBob]

Pacmans may survive off that diet of almost only rodents. But im willing to bet that im not the only pacman keeper with years and years of exp that would NOT recomend this. A good mix of differnt bugs w calcium is best. And mice once in a while.

[pyxieBob]

Bruce if he is still showing that hel eat then feed him. If they have any sort of true compaction they WILL stop eating. But if he looks hungry awake and going for food I would feed him for sure. Yes more food does equal more poop. I have had frogs that had small diets with almost 3 weeks between poops. See if he will eat and let us know. Hope this helps.

[Bruce]

he's in an eco earth bedding, so i dont thing the substrate is the issue. Yes, thats all hes had in 2 weeks, and his appetite it still very strong, he threw back a few more roaches today actually. that pinky he had was also his 1st

[pyxieBob]

good, he sounds ok to me. I was worried when you wrote earlier that his belly seemed to be getting bigger. and i had forgotten to ask if he was eating still. That belly buldge is most likely a big poop cooking up in there lol. Also do not feed him a pinky a day. please. lol

[Bruce]

lol i wasnt going to, i have a dubia roach colony for a staple... i was thinking the pinky every 2 weeks or so

[MeTree]

My frogs are on a mostly rodent diet(their preferense), and they have no problems with throwin' fleshies! I have to remove multiple thumb sized stanky turds every week. If I don't, there will be a bad smell, then mold. maybe you should feed your frog a little more. Is that all he ate in two weeks? food=poop!

I feed my baby pacs 1 pinky every day with calcium covered super worms, crickets, and an occasional wax worm thrown in the mix. As they grow older they stop eating so often and would rather have 1 or 2 mice a week. I breed mice, so there is no more $3 per mouse to burn me with! plus ther is usually a few pinkies for the little guys.

Hey guys. I am sorry this isn't extremely relevent to the impaction topic, but I need to point something out. I am not trying to be mean to frogmike at all, but he and everyone else reading this thread needs to know.

If mice are fed to Pacman Frogs too often as in the case listed above, lipids will start developing in the cornia of the Pacman Frog's eyes. This will eventually cause ir-reversable blindness and possibly even death! Be very careful not to overfeed rodents! They are very fatty! They should never be used as a primary food source for reasons listed above.

A rodent or 2 once a month, or maybe a (1) rodent twice a month is fine (depending on the size of the rodent and Pacman Frog of course), but with a pinky a day (or even twice a week debatebly) is not going to keep the blindness away (in fact, quite the opposite).

I just needed to point that out. Hope you guys don't mind.

Also, I am glad to hear that your Pacman Frogs seems to be eating fine, Bruce. My Pacman Frog takes forever it seems to take a poo, and then he is back to being the baddest monster cranwelli this planted knows.

[pyxieBob]

my thoughts exactly metree!!, I just said it much less obviously. Im glad you just wrote that. U stole words right out of my mouth. I feel if you own these frog to watch them kill rats then buy a snake instead! so thats I wrote this msg earlier......

good, he sounds ok to me. I was worried when you wrote earlier that his belly seemed to be getting bigger. and i had forgotten to ask if he was eating still. That belly buldge is most likely a big poop cooking up in there lol. Also do not feed him a pinky a day. please. lol

[frogmike]

How do you get your frogs to eat insects? My frogs won't touch any thing smaller than a large mouse. They will look at it and turn, but when they see a that its a bug, they won't eat it.

[Bruce]

Frogmike, i use tongs for my pacman, he used to do the same thing!

i just put it on the substrate floor, and use them to kinda push the insect towards him, then one it gets close enought he takes it, thats how i do it ne way

[MeTree]

How do you get your frogs to eat insects? My frogs won't touch any thing smaller than a large mouse. They will look at it and turn, but when they see a that its a bug, they won't eat it.

Yeah, I posted in your thread, but I can add something here. Mice tend to move around in the same spot. Bugs are more "darty and stoppy". Your Pacman Frogs are probably not going to lunge after a speeding cricket. Likewise, they will probably not lunge at a cricket standing still (Malcolm will not strike a still cricket even if he know it is right in front of him). Bugs take a little more patients.

(edit:
Oops, that is the second time I have posted simaltaniously with another member today. Alot of Pacman Frogs will accpet tong feeding. Mine will not accept the bugs right out of the tongs, but if I push it towards the frog, Malcolm will eat the cricket. Pretty much like what Bruce was saying.