Not hungry

[Roseanne]

there is a good chance that your pac is a male. that would explain the small size. The environment that it is living in is less than healthy though. Pacman frogs of all species will stay small if they are kept in this cold dry environment. The will not eat because they are cold blooded and do not hoave the energy to eat and digest their food. I have seen this problem many time in pet stores. Where there will be one little cold dried out pac in a quarter inch of dry substrate, a water bowl(which they do not use), a ton of moss which causes impaction, and a coulpe of dead crickets in other side of the tank. Month after month I will see the same little thing that has not grown and is darely living. These are not toads! They are designed for hot wet humid places throughout South America. they NEED wet soil, heat, and humidity!

I have no problem at all maintaining the humidity, and there is much more substrate than a quarter inch... I'm thinking I need a way to keep the heat inside the tank more efficiently, maybe the usual metal grated lid is letting too much heat escape.

[Roseanne]

And maybe you're having the same problem, demeteraurion?

[DonLisk]

I read a lot about under tank heaters and temps in the tank.

Under tank heaters will heat the substrate but would have to transmit a lot of heat to make it into the tank's air space. The substrate is like an insulator which is between your heater and the air space inside the tank where you temp gauge is reading.

Placing the heater on the side will surely raise the air space temp but since I'm not a pacman owner I do not know what the substrate temps should reach.

Is there a temp reading for the substrate?
Just wondering.

[demeteraurion]

My heater is under one side of the tank and I have about 2 inches of cocofiber in the aquarium and my temp. gauge is about 1.5-2 inches above the substrate and I get about 79 degrees. Sometimes the cocofiber feels warm, other times it doesnt. I'm seriously considering a ceramic heat emitter because this UTH sucks.

[Roseanne]

Ok, I covered half the lid with a towel and now the temperature is 80! Hopefully she eats today.

[demeteraurion]

I have my lid covered about 85% with aluminum foil, it helps the humidity, Idk about the heat. But I'm picking up a flourescent light today and I hope it will help Probably end up moving the uth to the side to see if it changes anything.