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I've had my pacman for 4 years and 11 months now, and I've feed him a staple diet of goldfish, nightcrawlers, and fuzzies.
He has not grown much if at all, and he has never made any noises, so I suspect he might be a she, but though at 4 inches, it could be on the smaller size for a female.
I never feed crickets, because it ignores them and they usually jump before it can attack them and get bedding in her mouth.
so pleas offer your thoughts on a diet of nightcrawlers, lively healthy feeder goldfish, and fuzzies, all without any dusting of any sort.

oh yeah, and my frog is at least 6 years old, since i purchased him while he was 4 inches. I'm sure he grew up on mostly goldfish, since all whole salers to petshops around here only feed them that. I don't want him to be suffering internally, that's all.

I normally recommend that goldfish be limited in the diet due to the high saturated fat content. If you can get any cool or cold water fish (or marine fish) these are much better as a food source.
Fuzzies are fine as a food source as long as you do not offer them too frequently as they are calorically "dense". Commercially produced rodents (especially "burned out breeders" ) are high in vitamin A and have been linked to "MBD" issues in pac man frogs when fed as a sole diet without supplementation (but this also depends on the diet fed the rodents as commercial lab blocks contain large amounts of vitamin A.
There have been multiple posts on this subject if you scan back over the last couple of years.
Nightcrawlers if kept in a calcium rich soil are an excellant food source but I hesitate to recommend them as a sole diet as they have been implicated as a problem when fed as the sole diet to American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana).

Ed

everything seems to sound bad!

A lot of it depends on the frequency of feeding and not using it as a sole diet. I have reared horned frogs on an all rodent diet but I fed them much less often then many people here feed them. They all lived between 6 and 10 years of age.

Ed