Any one keeping ornates/pac man frogs?

[Magician]

Anyone keeping these guys? Are they pet rocks? I'am considering getting one, but if its going to be a pet rock, maybe not. But i imagine it would have to move to eat. And i like feeding crixs.

 

[OldHag]

I had one for a long while...it generally just sat there.. like a rock.. Dont get me wrong, I loved the guy!! He would move about at night and make odd noises, but during the day he was a lump. The cat once got into his cage and I guess the frog bit her foot (she was bleeding on the pad of her foot) and she flipped him out onto the floor where he PUFFED up HUGE and began to emmit a horrid odor..almost like a skunk. Thats about the extent of the movements from my frog.

He was fun to feed! He would LURCH around the cage after whatever I put in there Hense his name "Lurch". I miss him

 

[Sting Crazy]

They have a packman frog at my local petstore. It doesnt move very much, but the storekeeper says hes especially vicious when disturbed and has sharp teeth. They say its a voracious eater and will eat anything from worms to pinkie mice

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[Scorpendra]

personally, i think no pet animal should be considered a "pet rock". C.'s Cranwelli and Ornata (the two most common species you will find) require humidity and heat, a constantly moist enviorment, and they need a varied diet, consisting of creature such as crickets and mealworms, and larger food as they mature. in fact, most of the time i spend taking special care of my pets is with my little blob.

 

[Scorpendra]

i'll admit they are not the kind of pets you would want to cuddle all the time, and they are not too active, and they ain't winning any beauty contests, but they are still a very interresting pet. but seriously, don't handle them a lot, the oils on human skin harm them worse than other frogs.

 

[Justin]

I think African bull frogs are cooler. I have had both. When I got my pac man frog, after getting him to my house from the pet store, after all the stress of getting to my house, he would not eat. My african bull frog on the other hand, I got him from about 4 hours away from my house. After the long stessful move, when I got him home, he ate like 13 crickets and a meal worm. He will hop after his food if he is hungy, even from the other end of his tank. He is very cool.

 

[KingBollock]

Apparently, in the wild, these frogs spend upto 8 months buried in the substrate (emerging only for the breeding season)* and that's exactly what mine did, I was lucky if I got to see it's eyes. It was cool feeding it (pre-killed) rat pups though on the occations I dug it up.


*This is something I read during research before I bought the frog.

 

[Shelob]

As an owner of a C. cranwelli for 2 years, I can agree with the other posters regarding their movement. They are burrowers who prefer 5 inches of substrate (coconut fiber, peat moss, etc) and they only usually move when they are hungry, or when they have soiled the area they are in so heavily they need to move. My frog went 6 months without eating a single item of food, I tried feeding him but he just didnt want to eat.

They are not "handleable" animals. The oils on human skin can damage them little bit, they can bite and lastly, they don't like it! However, watching them eat is quite entertaining. For some reason, my 3.5" male frog has been on an eating binge lately, in the past 3 weeks he has eaten :

1 4" house gecko
16 large crickets
6 giant mealworms
4 pinky mice
2 large mice

But keep in mind he had hardly eaten in the past 8 months