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    Default Large pacman frog help!!

    Okay so long story short I got a friend of mine a hatchling sized pacman frog in january. My friend just recently passed away and his parents cannot care for his collection so I'm inheriting his intire collection. With it is the pacman frog and he's about 7 or 8inches. What in the world do I feed this big guy and how often?? When I talked to him before he died he said he fed it rats but he's always been known for exaggerating the truth. He's coming in a 18 gallon tote which has been his enclosure his intire life. Should i keep him in this or move him to a larger enclosure? If so what size? Thanks in advance!
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    I broke out my handy dandy tape measure for this one. A pacman frog can basically eat anything that is its size or smaller, so yes, he could chow down on a small rat. I would probably get a large mouse or 2 mice first though becuase small rats can be a pain to find sometimes.

    My understanding is that rats are steriods for reptiles, by feeding rats it increases the rate of growth becuase they are packed with more nutrition.

    Also the 18 gallon tank is perfect, these frogs don't move much, apparently you could keep them in a 10 gallon and be set.


    Here are some quick fun care sheets I found.

    http://frogworld.net/pac-man-frog/
    http://www.reptilesncritters.com/Car...care-guide.php


    You should....totally upload a vid of the guy eating too, get a high frame rate though so it can be slowed down, they are awesome!
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    I can't help you with the care of the frog, as I'm not familiar with them at all, but at the very least I wanted to send my condolences to you for the loss of your friend. *gentle hugs*
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    Man I'm really sorry about your freind.

    As far as the frog I would feed him dubia roaches every other day and once or twice a week with the rats. What size is the tote? l x w x h i mean.
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    It's 25in long 15in tall and 15in wide. The enclosure has one of those jacuzzi water bowls Eco earth substrate and a couple fake plants. Is there any adjustments I need to make on setup? I'm finding care sheets sayin different ways of seting it up. I don't know which to believe
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    I think your more than good with that set up man. Your old buddie seemed to have it doing well with his set up and it is almost an adult, why mess with a good thing?
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    I have a video posted on YouTube from a couple months ago when the frog was a juvi. I believe it's under 'pissed off pacman frog' my friend was poking him with a nerf dart if anyone would like to check it out.
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    1 veiled chameleon
    1 Enigma Leopard Gecko
    1 Sunfire Bearded Dragon
    1 Australian whites tree frog
    1 red ear x yellow belly
    1 Yellow belly
    1 Red ear slider
    1 southern banded watersnake
    3 Savannah monitors
    2 Annoying Younger Brothers

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    The absolute biggest problem with feeding the larger frogs (Pacmans, Pixies, etc.) is in finding suitable sized prey items to get their interest, and many people resort to rodents for both convenience and impression (who isn't impressed by a frog eating rodents). However, this can have very dire consequences. Evidently rodents, while fine for reptiles, are too high in Vitamin A for amphibians (Vitamin A is the other lipid soluble vitamin, and so can be stored in fatty tissues and thereby lead to toxicity when fed in unnecessary amounts). There are numerous reports of zoos losing their Pacman/Pixie specimens through hypervitaminosis A, attributed to their excessive rodent diet. While I wouldn't say don't feed rodents at all, they should definitely be relegated more of a treat status than a staple status. Larger prey items like roaches, locusts, fish and dewworms make more suitable staples (albeit fish also have some drawbacks). Evidently the Japanese have developed a "mash" kind of frog-kibble dough that you can add water too, roll into a ball, and feed to the frogs (if you've trained them for it, that is). I haven't seen it available in stores though, just on the internet.

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    My frogs only get rodents once a month which I hear is the typical rule of thumb for reasons tupinambis stated above. Otherwise I feed large crickets, silkworms, hornworms (only the commercial variety are safe), and nightcrawlers for the most part. They like things with a lot of movement. My White's tree frogs are trained to feed with tongs, so I can feed them a larger variety of food items that are canned or whatever, like silkworms or grasshoppers.
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    I have a pixie and it is hard to find really big crickets. The Roaches (B.Dubia) work very well though.
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