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This morning I found a pack man frog in a small critter keeper on my door step.He lookes healthy and huge.Biggest frog I ever seen.I set up a 15 high reptile tank (only thing I had)with about 3"of bab then about 1" of peetmoss on top (dried not died). It is very humid in his tank. What do I feed him his mouth is so big. A note left with him said he eats mice.Thats not good rite?He's about 3"or 4" round he dont look skinny as a matter of fact he lookes plump I don't know anything about packman frogs.I'm gonna try to find him a new home but until then I need to feed him.How many crix do I feed him. What do I do if he don't eat them?Temps are mid to upper 70s day 60s at night. At least that's what my other tanks run. I could use any help offered with mostly care but he also needs a new home.To be honest he scares me. He doesn"t seem agressive He's just so big and looks like he could eat me out of house and home.

The frog will eat other amphibians, birds, mice, fish and large invertebrates in short anything small enough to overpowered and swallowed.
In the wild the majority of the diet consists of vertebrate prey (If you want to check the study out please refer to
Basso, N. G. and J. D. Williams. 1989. The diet of Ceratophrys ornata (Anura: Ceratophryidae) in Argentina. 1st World Congr. Herpetol. Canterbury) to the tune of greater than 90% of ingested prey items.

All of the offered food items need to be be supplemented with a good vitamin-mineral supplement or various metabolic problems can occur.
I would not recommend the use of peat or sphagnum moss with this species as I have seen skin discolorations caused by the low pH and in some amphibians low pHG substrates has been shown to lead to stress and possible death due to ion imbalances.
The food item offered to the frog will determine the frequency of the feeding. If you do use mice I would recommend not feeding the frog any more frequent that every 7-10 days biut depending on how fat the frog actually is every two weeks may be more appropriate.

This species will bite and can give a painful (and powerful) bite if threatened or if you trigger a feeding reaction.

Ed

Could sphagnum moss have been what was making my frog sick......?After I took him off it and put him on forest bed he got better.

I have to say it is possible but without a workup its hard to tell.

Ed

Now I'm realy scared of this frog. Anybody want this frog no charge. I live in Iowa just come and pick him up.I'm sticking with the cute little frogs!

No reason to be scared.They make good pets and as long as you don't hand feed or dangle your hands in front of it your fine.

where do you live in Iowa? Just curious because I am going to be visiting my grandparents in Dubuqe.

Wow, you are lucky. Why can't I get horned frogs dropped off onto my doorstep?
It's kind of sad for the person who owned it though, giving up on it like that and leaving it where a dog or little kid could get at it.
I would offer it some large crickets or nightcrawlers.
I am not sure where you live, but I would be willing to take the frog off of your hands.
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