Pacman Frog seems to be eating less than usual

[monster]

Hello, if your frog is a year old he is pretty much an adult and when they get to this stage they really don't eat as often. You could probably get away with feeding him a few at the start of the week and a few in the middle. You need to get vitamins, half the stuff petsmart tells you is very poor advice and you are probably better to do the opposite if what you tell you. He needs calcium and d3 and multivitamins, rep-cal is a pretty good brand. If you go to the top of the pacman frog part of the forum I believe there is a really good feeding and dusting schedule there. For the heating if you can get away with just that light you can go to walmart or a home depot and buy a dimmer for like $8 and you can adjust your temp that. If you don't see any other signs of illness I worry to much about his eating he is probably just getting older and doesn't need to eat as often.

[monster]

Sorry the vitamin schedule was in a thread, if you go up to the advanced search part and type in CA & Vitamin dusting schedules it will come up and it is written by a person with the user name mentat.

[Zessinna]

Hello, if your frog is a year old he is pretty much an adult and when they get to this stage they really don't eat as often. You could probably get away with feeding him a few at the start of the week and a few in the middle. You need to get vitamins, half the stuff petsmart tells you is very poor advice and you are probably better to do the opposite if what you tell you. He needs calcium and d3 and multivitamins, rep-cal is a pretty good brand. If you go to the top of the pacman frog part of the forum I believe there is a really good feeding and dusting schedule there. For the heating if you can get away with just that light you can go to walmart or a home depot and buy a dimmer for like $8 and you can adjust your temp that. If you don't see any other signs of illness I worry to much about his eating he is probably just getting older and doesn't need to eat as often.

Alighty! Thanks so much!
I am also happy to say he did eat a couple worms yesterday. So I was feeling better about that and I will get a dimmer. Thanks!

[monster]

And now that I went back and read your trouble in the enclosure answers I agree that takeing him out of the family room and putting him back in the low traffic area might be a good idea. They are stressed very easily. You want to clean his enclosure every month at the longest, these frogs produce a lot a waste. His water you should change everyday even if he doesn't use it. What kind of fish do you feed him when you do? you really have to watch because lots of fish like goldfish are host to parasites and worms that can be past on to your froggy.

[Zessinna]

And now that I went back and read your trouble in the enclosure answers I agree that takeing him out of the family room and putting him back in the low traffic area might be a good idea. They are stressed very easily. You want to clean his enclosure every month at the longest, these frogs produce a lot a waste. His water you should change everyday even if he doesn't use it. What kind of fish do you feed him when you do? you really have to watch because lots of fish like goldfish are host to parasites and worms that can be past on to your froggy.

Okay! I will follow your advice! They are just petstore (from PetSmart) goldfish. It's been a long while since I fed him fish though, that was back in the summer, so more than 5 months ago.

[monster]

Ya goldfish are one of the worst for those kind of things. Hornworms and wax worms are good for treats every once in awhile but they are very fatty so its not good to give them to often.

[Zessinna]

Ya goldfish are one of the worst for those kind of things. Hornworms and wax worms are good for treats every once in awhile but they are very fatty so its not good to give them to often.

ohhhhh okay. No more goldfish for him! But Hornworms seem interesting, I think I will definitely give that a go one day. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out Cory!

[monster]

No problem that's what the forum is for, and most pacman frogs love hornworms so you shouldn't have a hard time getting him to eat them.And one more thing, 70f is to low even for at night. 75f is the lowest you should go, and 82f-83f would be more of an ideal day time temp.