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Hello once again i was wondering if i am over feeding my pacman. Every day after school i come home and she eats 1 2 and maybe 3 wax worms (EVERY DAY). Does she have a large appitite or am i over feeding her? thanks for all the help.

How old is your frog? How large is it?

Depending on how small or large your frog is should determine how often you feed it.
Small pacmans under an 1 1/2" do best being fed daily to every other day. Those between an 1 1/2"-2 1/2" do fine being fed every second to third day. sometimes longer depending on the frog, some eat voraciously an others don't. Pacman's over 2 1/2" to adult size can be fed relativily larger meals once or twice a week. Of course sometimes more or less depening on the frog.
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0.0.1 C. ornata
1.0.0 C. cranwelli
0.0.1 Albino C. cranwelli
0.0.1 C. cranwelli x cornuta
1.0.0 yellow C. cornuta
0.0.2 green C. cornuta
1.1.0 Bufo regularis
1.0.1 D. leucomelas
0.0.2 Panamanian D. Auratus

1.0.0 Normal Honduran milksnake
0.1.0 Anerythristic Honduran milksnake
0.0.1 striped cornsnake
1.0.0 Butter het motley cornsnake
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0.0.3 New Caledonian Crested geckos
1.1.0 Carrot tail and patternless leopard geckos

Not relating to the message, but what does:

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and so on mean when describing your pets?

male.female.unknown 2.3.5 would be 2 males, 3 females, 5 unknown genders, which means they are too young to tell or you just havent checked yet.

AHHHhhh! Makes total sence now.. its been bugging me for more then a month heheh =)

Thanks!

it all depends on what size you pacman is. 3 waxworms is really not that big of a meal unless you have a very tiny frog. you should really not be feeding waxworms every meal. waxworms are high in fat and can eventually lead to blindness and organ damage if fed every meal. crickets should really be the staple diet for your frog with a treat (pinkie mouse) every two weeks or so. my cranwelli (about 1.5 months old) eats about 8 large crickets every other day.
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0.0.1 Cranwelli Horned Frog
0.0.1 Ornate Horned Frog

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How big is it? I feed my large adult roughly once a month. She spends most of her time buried, but once in awhime I dig her out for an inspection. She comes out on her own once in awhile, and this is when I feed.
If yours is a growing froglet, I would make sure to use some cricket-dust, such as repti-vite, because they NEED calcium when their bones are growing. Feeding every few days should be enough.

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0.1 albino Cranwell's horned frog
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1.0 black kittycat
3.1 Oscar cichlids
Also have fancy goldfish, african cichlids, and rats. And 1 Paint horse mare