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I recently got a pac man frog and was told by the pet store to feed it everyday one cricket till it gets larger. Well, it was fine for the first three days, but now it won't eat and I wondered why? The temperature of his cage remains around 80 degrees. He seems to be healthy no discoloration or anything.

dont konw to much about pacmen *lol*

Also you need to give us a bit mroe information for someone to fully comment.

How long have you had him? Does he go to the bathroom regularly? How large is your pacman? What size crickets are you feeding it? What size tank do you have it in? What kind of substrate? What temps are you keeping the pacman at? Night/Day?

Give us that info and we can give you a good reason.

But for now Ill try and attempt to give you something. I feed my frog every 3 days or so and give him 5-6 crickets. I wouldnt suggest feeding him one cricket a day. But then again I have no clue what size your frog is or what size the crickets. But sometimes they just get full and stop eating for a bit so it could be nothing at all. But give us some more info and we can help better.
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My pacman is kept in half water/half dry 10 gallon tank. Along with hiding spots under and behind fake plants. The frog the petstore said was a couple months old. The substrate in the tank is smooth gravel. Temperature of the tank is kept at about 80degrees F. The pacman frog also know as ornate horn frog is about two inches in length and the head is half the body size. Feeding at night usually around 5-6pm.

Ok ditch the gravel if you want your frog to live. They WILL ingest the gravel and become impacted. Replace the substrate TONIGHT with papertowels and then get some bed a beast tomorrow. Your frog will be much better off. Next, vary the diet. Crickets and nightcrawlers will make a good staple for the diet (hissing cockroaches make a great staple and are easy to keep and breed if you can stomach them). Feed other inverts such as mealies, waxies, supers, and any other invert you can commercially get or catch yourself (assuming the insect is pesticide free) to supplement the diet. A 2 inch frog can be fed about 2 times a week or so with a substantial amount of feeders. What is substantial? It is up to you. Does your frog appear a bit skinny? Does it appear bloated and fat? You have to adjust the menu and schedule for your frog overtime depending on the answer to these two questions. A little skinnier is better for the frog than a little overweight. But either way, a cricket a day is NOT sufficient to keep a frog alive, no matter what they pet store says. Precisely the reason I do not go to pet stores (save one which is a strictly herp store with a knowledgable staff). Good luck. Feel free to check out my carepage on my site the reptizone. Andy
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Andy Maddox
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Meant to specify that when I say papertowels, make sure that they are very lightly dampened.
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Andy Maddox
AIM: SurfAndSkimTx04
MSN: Poloboy32486@hotmail.com
Yahoo:surfandskimtx04
Houston Herp Key
The Reptizone

Burgundy baby, With your blue eyed soul, You play the hits and I'm on that roll, Capricorn sister, Freddie Mercury, Jupiter Child cry

I agree except for one thing: at such a young age, it won't hurt the frog to be a little chubby. As an adult, yes, a little skinny(er) is preferable to fat. But I've certainly never heard of an obese baby pacman, especially one that died because of it.

>>Ok ditch the gravel if you want your frog to live. They WILL ingest the gravel and become impacted. Replace the substrate TONIGHT with papertowels and then get some bed a beast tomorrow. Your frog will be much better off. Next, vary the diet. Crickets and nightcrawlers will make a good staple for the diet (hissing cockroaches make a great staple and are easy to keep and breed if you can stomach them). Feed other inverts such as mealies, waxies, supers, and any other invert you can commercially get or catch yourself (assuming the insect is pesticide free) to supplement the diet. A 2 inch frog can be fed about 2 times a week or so with a substantial amount of feeders. What is substantial? It is up to you. Does your frog appear a bit skinny? Does it appear bloated and fat? You have to adjust the menu and schedule for your frog overtime depending on the answer to these two questions. A little skinnier is better for the frog than a little overweight. But either way, a cricket a day is NOT sufficient to keep a frog alive, no matter what they pet store says. Precisely the reason I do not go to pet stores (save one which is a strictly herp store with a knowledgable staff). Good luck. Feel free to check out my carepage on my site the reptizone. Andy
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>>Andy Maddox
>>AIM: SurfAndSkimTx04
>>MSN: Poloboy32486@hotmail.com
>>Yahoo:surfandskimtx04
>> Houston Herp Key
>> The Reptizone
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>>Burgundy baby, With your blue eyed soul, You play the hits and I'm on that roll, Capricorn sister, Freddie Mercury, Jupiter Child cry
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I just think that obese babies eventually become obese adults. It would be more beneficial for smaller feeders, a slower growth rate, and a healthy diet to help curb problems that could in the future affect the health of the frog.
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Andy Maddox
AIM: SurfAndSkimTx04
MSN: Poloboy32486@hotmail.com
Yahoo:surfandskimtx04
Houston Herp Key
The Reptizone

Burgundy baby, With your blue eyed soul, You play the hits and I'm on that roll, Capricorn sister, Freddie Mercury, Jupiter Child cry

Listen to snakeguy, knows what hes talking about. I wont repeat what he said. But yeah.. what he said... O)
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2.0 Ball Pythons (Kurt the Snake ~ Frosty McFry)
0.1 Leucistic Texas Rat (OogieBoogie)
0.1 Kenyan Sand Boa (NoFingers McGee)
1.1 Bearded Dragons (Saku ~ GracieJ)
0.0.1 Albino Ornate Pacman Frog (Jabba the Frog)
0.0.1 Ornate Pacman Frog (Hooter)
0.0.1 Emperor Scorpion (Cecil Peoples)
0.0.1 Usambara Tarantula - (FBD - Fire Ball of Death)
2.0 House Cats (Bill ~ Ted)

And a partrige in a pear tree...

~!Bearded Dragon Custom Cage Design!~

Hey,
If your horned frog has been eating the first three days, then it should be fine. I recently bought one myself and they seem to go on and off of feeding at times, so it sounds pretty normal to me. I feed my 1.5 inch frog 1 large dusted cricket everyday. When it looks a little too fat, I stop feeding it for two days or so.

You might want to change your setup as well. Do not use pebbles or any type of gravel, because it will impact the organs, which causes death. I have mine on about 2 inches of Eco-Earth with a water dish with the water level below its nostrils. G'luck!
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