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I have a juvenile albino pacman frog and am concerned about him overheating. The temperature of the cage is the low 80's which I have read is the correct temperature to have, however below the heatlamp is his water dish, I was doing some routine cleaning in his cage and he hoped into the water bowl so I figured I would let him sit in there. After a few minutes I looked over to check up on him and noticed that his toes were twitching. My immediate fear was that he was overheating considering that the water in the bowl is rather warm. Im just wondering if twitching is a sign of overheating, and if I should be concerned about it. He seems to be doing alright now, I took him out of the water, misted him off and took the heat lamp off the cage for a little bit. I guess I'm just wondering whether he was infact overheating or not? Do pacman frogs usually twitch? I have never noticed him doing it before which is why I suppose I was so concerned.

Thanks for your time,

Matt

Was it the front toes? I have seen you horned frogs (pac-man frogs) sorta twitch or wiggle their front toes. It is a way they lure prey to come with in range. I would just provide a good temp. gradient with in the tank and he should be fine.

Rob

Just a suggestion...

Keep the heat lamp and water dish on opposite sides of the tank. That way the frog can climb into the dish to cool off when needed. Or maybe you could have 2 water dishes, one under the lamp and one on the other side of the tank. Either way, your goal should be a tank with a temperature gradiant between the two sides. Think of it as a McDLT vivarium.

Regards,

SpiderCMB

My frog always is in room temp and it seems fine that way. I noticed that alot of petstores have pacmans in small container with just shallow water. i dont reccomend that u setup ur pacman's tank like this, but the frogs looked just fine.