>I would like to respectfully disagree here. I agree that geckos and >other
>aggressive demolishers of prey are pretty safe. However, I have >personally
>lost a pair of leopard frogs to mealworm-inflicted internal >injuries---we
>didn't have autopsies done, so I have only circumstantial evidence >that the
>mealworms were at fault, but I found the circumstantial evidence >extremely
>convincing. (Briefly: No symptoms other than obvious physical >discomfort,
>the frogs that ate of the mealworms died and the one that refused >them
>didn't, and other species that ate from the same batch were fine, so >I
>don't think it was a batch of poisoned worms.)
Nathan, I am sorry for the loss of your frogs, but it is impossible to make such an
assertion (OK not impossible - you just did ;) based on the evidence you cite.
If we condemned every foodstuff that an animal ate and died shortly therafter, we
would have nothing to feed our critters. Think of the myriad little frogs that die -
after eating fruit flies and pinheads. No one would say that FF and pinheads kill
froglets.
Is it a crime to behead mealies? Nope, but AFAIK no one has ever substantiated such
the claim that intect mealies can eat their way out of a reptile or an amphibian. I
know o no pathologist that has documented such a case, nor any clinician make such a
diagnosis.
Keith
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