Quote Originally Posted by Badger View Post
Both play sand and mulch are unsafe, they can cause impaction and kill your frog, the best substrate to use (in my opinion) is coco-fiber (not to be confused with coco-husk). The biggest name brand is Eco-Earth by zoo med.
I disagree! If an amphibian comes from a naturally sandy enviroment, there is no reason that sand cannot be used in it's vivarium. My american toads have a mixture of sand and soil in their viv (used to be straight sand, had to mix in soil for the plants to grow), they hunt in the viv for their food (I do not tong feed them) and they are fine.

Sand does not cause impaction, I know this for a fact because my american toad shed on 100% sand while being partially burrowed, and it's shed was FULL of sand. It ate the entire shed, sand and all and was fine, now is still fine 2 months later. Sand is small, if ingested, it is easily passed.

Where are you getting your information about how "unsafe sand" is?