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#2212670
ZACHARIAH
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Easy way to feed a Pac man? 
I have a young 6 month old pac man, female I believe. I am looking for an easier way to feed her. Will they eat from a feeding bowl? She has no problem eating fuzzies but when it comes to eating crickets, superworms and roaches they hide from her. I feed her from tongs but she always bites the tongs and and sometimes the insect gets away while she is hanging on to the tongs. She bites the tongs and won’t let go and I am afraid that she might injur herself on them. I use the ones with rubber coating but I am still afraid that the rubber might slide off and that she won’t be able to digest it. If I drop her food in and let her catch it on her own, sometimes the prey stays in the tank for days. Superworms burrow and female crickets end up laying eggs (I had an infestation of baby crickets twice in her tank) so I have to weed out the females and and feed only males and that sucks, plus if they stay in the tank overnight they start making noise, and the roaches just hide in the moss and under her log. Well thanks for reading and hopefully you can help me with this matter. Plus is there anything else that I can feed her to give her more of a variety?
Zachariah
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04/02/11 05:17pm
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#2212676
Jefwithonef005
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Message To: ZACHARIAH In reference to Message Id: 2212670
Easy way to feed a Pac man?
whats wrong with eggs? cant she just eat the baby crickets in there? or does she have a schedule ?
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04/02/11 06:21pm
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#2212721
ZACHARIAH
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Message To: Jefwithonef005 In reference to Message Id: 2212676
Easy way to feed a Pac man?
No she can’t eat the babies because they are too small and they just climb all over her and annoy her, plus they will also feast on her while she sleeps and cause more problems from infections. Last time the eggs hatched there were at least a hundred smaller than pinhead babies in there. Thanks for your reply.
Zachariah
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04/03/11 12:16am
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#2212758
Jefwithonef005
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Message To: ZACHARIAH In reference to Message Id: 2212721
 Easy way to feed a Pac man?
Do you have a small tank or something like that ? You could not use substrate and just have her in there with the food! Yeah that would be lots of work.i dont know ....
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04/03/11 09:55am
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#2212977
JackAsp
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Message To: Jefwithonef005 In reference to Message Id: 2212758
Easy way to feed a Pac man?
I wouldn’t use rubber-coated tongs. If she bites metal too hard, odds she’ll heal and remember not to bite the tongs. But if her "teeth" scrape off a bit of rubber.. yeah, your concerns are valid. And I agree about you not wanting to subject an ambush predator that favors large prey items to hundreds of baby crickets nibbling all over its highly sensitive skin.
Plastic tongs would be one option. So is using your hands. Just make sure you hold the food high enough that you don’t get chomped.
FYI, F/T fish are better for them than mice. Honestly, even if the only affordable option is goldfish, they’re still better than mice, although it’s better to go with guppies for a small frog and maybe chopped-in-half grocery store smelt for a larger frog. If you’re worried about the Vitamin-B-blocking issue, just make sure they’re warmed up well in hot water first. The problematic enzyme breaks down around 80 degrees.
Also, when using small prey items like crickets and guppies, old fogies like me have a trick from before feeding tongs were even an option. You stick a clean broomstraw through the prey item and position it so crosses the frog’s muzzle horizontally. When they bite, the food will stay in, but you can still pull the straw back out sideways. Back in the "everything is wildcaught" days, that was a pretty standard trick for teaching a shy animal to eat from the hand. Every few days I’d cut the broomstraw an inch or two shorter, and before it ran out they were no longer afraid to approach my hand.
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04/05/11 12:50am
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Tmills
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Message To: ZACHARIAH In reference to Message Id: 2212670
Easy way to feed a Pac man?
I feed my albino pac wich is about as old as yours red rosies from my local pet shop there only 10 cents each,I just drop one at a time into the tank alive in front of her mouth as soon as the fish twitches or flops she grabs it in a flash.then I repeat one more time , she eats 2 per feeding and is also given large crikets.I tried mealworms and she had no interest in them so I stick to live fish and gut loaded large crikets.
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04/05/11 12:12pm
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Blake buz
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Message To: ZACHARIAH In reference to Message Id: 2212670
 Easy way to feed a Pac man?
I think its good to put frog in smaller tank or carrier so the crickets cant hide
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07/06/11 09:00pm
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