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Ok well I asked before but had no response....I keep my pac in a 10 gallon tank with about 2 inches of gravel......The gravel is ok because I deef HER outside the cage...Theres also a small waterbowl for her to get in and out of too and the temps around about 78-85 during the day and steady 70 at night is this all ok???,....also shes about 3 inches and 7 months old ive been feeding small mice on wedsdays and a few gold fish on sundays is that good? then when shes a year I was going to move her to once a week...?
thanks for all the help
Mike

You might want to dust the mice and fish with a calcium dust. Use a dust that has no phosphorus in it. Repcal or reptocalcium are good choices. Also (and I'm not an expert on it) feed the mice and fish less often. Finally, I've heard that goldfish are too fatty to be a good food for a horned frog. Feed them crickets instead or , if you want to feed them fish, use rosy reds instead. Good luck!

i would agree with lenny on the fish and mice, mice are good but only on occasion both mice and gold fish are high in fat, if you wanted to feed a more healthy fish, a live barer such as mollies platies and swordtails tend to have less fat than an egg laying fish such as a goldfish, start feeding crickets and earthworms so make sure that is gets some different sources of animal protien, if you ate and hamburger and chocolate shake every meal you wouldnt be too healthy, mix it up and give variety, good luck

Adam
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3.5 THAYERI
1.2 SPLENDIDA (1.0 ALBINO/ 0.2 HYPO)
1.3 ALTERNA
1.1 CAL KING (1.0 ALB.LAVENDER/0.1 BLIZZARD)
0.0.1 HOLD BACK RUNT ALBINO CORN
0.1.1 pyxie
0.0.2 horned frogs

to start with, bad diet. crickets gutloaded dusted with herptive and rep cal with d3 should be your staple food. mice should be a once in awhile treat along with wax worms, meal worms etc. it's really not difficult, research before you buy any animal to knwo its needs.

FIRST of you need to read up on the pacman frog ASAP. gravel is probally the worst thing to keep them in i use bed a beast with a small water dish,which works great. second stop feeding your freaking frog mice they shouldnt be fed that all the time its high in fats and the lipids can cause blindness over time. crickets, wax worms, melworms, with dusting them once a week will be a good diet for it so make some changes ASAP then post a pic of your setup.

here we go again...

Contrary to the popular opinion mice are not "high" in lipids and fats particuarly if you are comparing them to crickets and other commercial feeders. They are pretty much the same on a kcal basis (which is how diets are calculated out). They're are multiple cases of corneal lipidosis occuring in anurans that have only ever been fed invertebrates.
The problem comes into play with fact that rodents are much more nutritionally dense than crickets and people tend to overfeed the frogs. For example a pink mouse the same size as an adult cricket weighs the same as an 3-4 adult crickets...

Goldfish are not recommended as a staple due to thier high cholesterol content.

Ed