Please help with my maverick ^(*~*)^

[jelkins]

Hey Maverick. I live in KY not too far from you...during the summer months I typically move my frogs outside due to the high humidity typical throughout the southeast. Now, I have a porch outside and deck I keep their enclosures on in a safe place. Obviously, not everyone owns their own place or has a safe place outside to keep their encolsures, but the humidity and required temps are taken care of if you can do this and regularly (daily) monitor the water and soil moisture in your frogs cage. This may help until you aqcuire the necessary equipment you need to properly maintain your frog inside.

[Maverick]

Hey Maverick. I live in KY not too far from you...during the summer months I typically move my frogs outside due to the high humidity typical throughout the southeast. Now, I have a porch outside and deck I keep their enclosures on in a safe place. Obviously, not everyone owns their own place or has a safe place outside to keep their encolsures, but the humidity and required temps are taken care of if you can do this and regularly (daily) monitor the water and soil moisture in your frogs cage. This may help until you aqcuire the necessary equipment you need to properly maintain your frog inside.

Were do you put ur tanks outside.

[Maverick]

Hi Jeff

[jelkins]

I have a covered porch and deck; the enclosure is on a stand on the porch.

[DVirginiana]

Even if it takes a few days to get the thermometer/humidity gauges and get his enclosure 100% right, absolutely DON'T put your frog outside without a screen top on the tank! And don't try to make one out of something else; a solid covering could cook your frog if left outside.

It's not something I'd recommend as a short-term solution anyway, since you'd need to put a thermometer out there and monitor the temperatures for several days before you even think of trying that. Depending on the sun/shade in the spot you put the frog, it could get way to hot (or too chilly at night) without you necessarily knowing.

[Maverick]

Even if it takes a few days to get the thermometer/humidity gauges and get his enclosure 100% right, absolutely DON'T put your frog outside without a screen top on the tank! And don't try to make one out of something else; a solid covering could cook your frog if left outside.

It's not something I'd recommend as a short-term solution anyway, since you'd need to put a thermometer out there and monitor the temperatures for several days before you even think of trying that. Depending on the sun/shade in the spot you put the frog, it could get way to hot (or too chilly at night) without you necessarily knowing.

i'm 14 and don't have any kind of porch like that and wouldn't even do anything like that if I had that kind of porch.My baby pixie (Gunther) is eating better than my pacman (maverick) anyone got a suggestion on why that is?

[GrifTheGreat]

i'm 14 and don't have any kind of porch like that and wouldn't even do anything like that if I had that kind of porch.My baby pixie (Gunther) is eating better than my pacman (maverick) anyone got a suggestion on why that is?

Pyxi Frogs normaly have more of an appetite than most other frogs. Some adults have been known to devour 50 Night Crawlers in one feeding. Of course this was a very large male. Adult Pacman Frogs tend to slow down as the mature and will eat less. This is due to them not growing anywhere near as fast as when growing from froglet to juvenile to adult. Most I've ever had one of my pacman frogs eat was twelve in one feeding.

Kind of funny. My Pyxi is named Günther.

[DVirginiana]

i'm 14 and don't have any kind of porch like that and wouldn't even do anything like that if I had that kind of porch.My baby pixie (Gunther) is eating better than my pacman (maverick) anyone got a suggestion on why that is?

Honestly, I'm really pleasantly surprised to hear that someone is as well informed and involved in reptiles/amphibians as you are at 14!

Also, your pac doesn't look like a baby, so like Grif said you don't need to worry if it doesn't eat every day. Can we get some pics of your pyxie? If it's still growing it'll be needing a lot more food than a pac, and would still be eating way more as an adult. My adult female pacman (Trevor) probably eats 5-7 nightcrawlers a week with supplements, and she's between 4-5 inches long.

Since you asked for stories; she's named after Neville's frog in Harry Potter And she doesn't care that she was named after a boy frog.
Was your Gunther named after the Adventure Time penguin by any chance? My cousins watch that show.