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Message To: Hognose In reference to Message Id: 2082596
Desert toads are poisonous? 
Hognoses are resistant to the venom, but use pinkies anyway. Wild toads carry small parasite toadfs, which rarely build up to anything serious unless confined. When they defecate they keep moving, so any worms or proazoa that they pass stay behind. In a cage, reinfection is too easy. Same way with snakes that eat them. Waste will often be in the cage for a few hours before you come home and see it, and it can be crawlwd through, spread around... plus sometimes the drinking dish gets used as a toilet, and it’s not like they have a source of cleaner water. So you want the snake to eat the cleanest food you can offer it. Frozen/thawed pinkies are the best. Live pinkies are distant second. Guppies or rosies would be third (Do not feed them goldfish. There are many health reasons not to.) Ultimately, you want the snake eating frozen/thawed mice, and if he’s hesitant you can often use tuna water or chicken broth to help convince him. Westerns aren’t as dependant on toads as a lot of people seem to think they are. Pretty much everybody used mice for them, and since captive ones often grow MUCH larger than wild ones, they seem to thrive on them.
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Desert toads are poisonous?
Desert toads are poisonous?