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Hey, I am not a pac man veteran, but a veiled chameleon specialist. Any way, last weekend at the South Carolina Reptile in Columbia, my friend purchased a baby albino pac man frog. I suggested them after watching a friends eat two full grown mice, totally cool. So, after he set up a new enclosure (20 gallon, large I know, but he used what he had) he placed a heat pad on the bottom side of the tank. He was using moist papertowels, but now has a spagum moss substrate. Anyway, this was on saturday, and he has noticed the frog has not eaten a single pinhead cricket. He has offered a few, even coaxing him with tweezers, and dangling them in front of him. Nothing is working. So my question is, is this normal? Is there something else he has not considered in his set up? I personally have had terrible luck with expo-bought pets. Any suggestions? And also is it true that albinos have a shorter life span? Thanks.

it may be that the crickets are hiding in the moss in that very large tank and the pacman cant find them. the other thing is heating, if he is too cold he wont eat. i would use a heat lamp, especially since they burrow down and that could lead to them sitting on bare glass that is being heated with the heat pad, then you have a burned frog (or worse). i would go with wet paper towels, but if he wants something a little more eye pleasing the only other thing i would use is shredded coconut bark (eco-earth or bed-a-beast). how long has he had him and it not eaten? i have found expos to be great sources of cheap animals, some of which dont do well possibly due to the long car rides and being in not so ideal conditions for so long. but in general i think expos are great sources of animals. i havent heard of albinos not living as long, and i dont really see how that could be true unless you have some high intensity UV lighting on them (since they dont have the pigments to block it).