Pac Man Setup Beginner

[aGreenCup]

Grif, thanks for the information it really helps, but a male pacman can live in 5 gallon tank its whole life? Initially i wanted to get a 12x12x12 exo terra which is 7.4 gallons, but people around this community recommend not putting any kind of frog in this enclosure. A 10 gallon would work well with both makes and females, i do understand why i need to get a critter keeper if the frog is a baby and that albinos need special lighting, which concerns me because i kinda wanted a lime green albino. So it looks like its back to the drawing board with some of my plans.

[GrifTheGreat]

Grif, thanks for the information it really helps, but a male pacman can live in 5 gallon tank its whole life? Initially i wanted to get a 12x12x12 exo terra which is 7.4 gallons, but people around this community recommend not putting any kind of frog in this enclosure. A 10 gallon would work well with both makes and females, i do understand why i need to get a critter keeper if the frog is a baby and that albinos need special lighting, which concerns me because i kinda wanted a lime green albino. So it looks like its back to the drawing board with some of my plans.

I don't use 12"x12"x12" because they don't have enough height to keep the lights away from your frog. I use 12"x12"x18" tree frog tanks for adult males and they work great. Of course you can place adult males in 10 gallon tanks like the females and them be just fine. You can always work on making a nice 20 gallon build and fill it in well so it appears to have less open space and go more natural. You could use plant lighting with an Albino IF and only IF there is substantial shade and cover for the frog and if the lights are not extremely bright. Most live plants only thrive under Fluorescent lighting which is very bright and requires a special dimmer switch to dim them down where as incandescents have lamps with dimmer switches readily available.

Another note to consider is that with these incandescent bulbs you do not want to go higher than 50 watts and no lower than 25 watts. any higher than 50 watts can possibly harm the frog and dry out the enclosure and any lower than 25 watts can be ineffective at heating. You can also use CHE(Ceramic Heat Emitters) to heat the enclosure with a lamp that has a dimmer switch. CHE get extremely hot though and cannot touch anything that could melt or burn so a dimmer switch should be used with them so they don't get too hot and of course the Wattage range should be followed the same as with incandescent bulbs, but 60 watts with these are fine. They produce heat with no light so no worries of blinding the frog.

[aGreenCup]

Grif, thanks again. It looks like that I need to get some lighting and a critter keeper so that when I get a baby pacman it will be a stress free environment. Now it seems to me that I need more research on how I want to setup the tank when it reaches maturity.

[GrifTheGreat]

Grif, thanks again. It looks like that I need to get some lighting and a critter keeper so that when I get a baby pacman it will be a stress free environment. Now it seems to me that I need more research on how I want to setup the tank when it reaches maturity.

Good idea and you're welcome.

[aGreenCup]

now with this 20Gal long tank could i use a tank divider and house two pacmans? The demisions for both sides is 15x13x12 which is 10Gals. I also got my lighting just waiting on everything else to come in the next week.

[GrifTheGreat]

now with this 20Gal long tank could i use a tank divider and house two pacmans? The demisions for both sides is 15x13x12 which is 10Gals. I also got my lighting just waiting on everything else to come in the next week.

Yes. You can use real glass or Plexiglass for the divider. Make sure you make it so its not able to be seen through so the frogs cannot see each other and this will also add security for the frogs. Make sure it is all the way flush with the inside walls of the tank as well as the actual lid so there is no possible way either frog could get to the other. If you think they can't scale a tank wall to get to another frog or out of the tank think again. They most certainly can and will. These are very determined frogs when they want to be. I've heard funny stories about Pacman escape artists and horror stories.

[aGreenCup]

Awesome, thanks again.