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I need something to eat the excess lobster roaches im breeding since my monitor outgrew them and all i have that eats them is a tokay. I have heard these things are eating machines. I was thinking of a rubermaid tub that has like 10 inch walls and the floor space of a 10 gal. I have plenty of peat moss on hand would this be a suitable substrate? ive read a few care sheets and have experence with many reptiles so i think i can care for it but any advice is allways appreceated. also is this a good display animal or should i keep it secludid if i do get it?
thanks

I'm not very experienced at all and I haven't had too many major issues with Pacmen, so they are very hardy little creatures. I don't know if you will be able to get one that is big enough to start eating roaches, the only ones that I have ever seen are sold at the size of a 50 cent coin and take many months to get bigger. Also, I'm not sure that frogs should have cockroaches as a staple food, but again I'm no expert.

I breed lobster and giant cave roaches so i have all sizes from 1 mm to maby 50-60mm for the big cave roaches and they are all gutloaded from the very beginning as there feeders. I would also feed it mice and to a lesser extent fish because well i like to watch.

Sure. Again I know nothing about cockroaches and couldn't say one way or the other if they are good as a staple food. I know taht you're not supposed to feed too many insects with hard shells made of chitin, not sure if cockroaches have that? I've always been under the impression the staple food was supposed to be crickets. I'd say ask the pet store. Otherwise, like I said they are really easy to care for and hardy pets.

Compared to crickets cockroaches are soft bodied, and more Nutritious. I've started breeding them myself but haven't offered any to my frogs yet. I've seen how fast lobster roaches can move and i'd be concerned about a pacman's ability to catch such a fast moving bug. which means you'd have to tong feed it and not all pacman frogs readily feed from them.
you could try offering roaches and see how it goes.
you can feed a pacman anything from small feeder guppies, small commets, rosey red minnows, nightcrawlers, red wigglers, silk worms, super worms, mealworms, waxworms, and rarely
frozen/thawed mice.

BD
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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
1.1.2 Bufo regularis
1.1.0 D. leucomelas
0.0.2 Panamanian D. Auratus
0.1.0 Anerythristic Honduran milksnake
1.0.0 Normal Honduran milksnake
0.0.1 Anerythristic striped cornsnake
1.0.0 Butter het motley cornsnake
2.1.0 Normal ball python
1.2.0 Normal and Sandfire Beared Dragons
0.0.1 Chinese water dragon
2.1.0 New Caledonian Crested geckos
0.0.1 New Caledonian Gargoyle Gecko
1.1.0 high yellow and patternless leopard geckos

Will a pacman eat off tongs if it is hungry enough? I am determined to get my pacman on tongs, it is really a problem. He doesn't run away, just doesn't give a care. I AM SO ANNOYED

how often do you feed your pacman?
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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
1.1.2 Bufo regularis
1.1.0 D. leucomelas
0.0.2 Panamanian D. Auratus
0.1.0 Anerythristic Honduran milksnake
1.0.0 Normal Honduran milksnake
0.0.1 Anerythristic striped cornsnake
1.0.0 Butter het motley cornsnake
2.1.0 Normal ball python
1.2.0 Normal and Sandfire Beared Dragons
0.0.1 Chinese water dragon
2.1.0 New Caledonian Crested geckos
0.0.1 New Caledonian Gargoyle Gecko
1.1.0 high yellow and patternless leopard geckos

used to be every day to every other day, recently it's been twice every week but 10 crickets or more at a time. I just drop them in there, leave him alone, and the next day they are gone.