Quote Originally Posted by kueluck View Post
I guess I just don’t understand how captive, native amphibians can have pathogens that are bad, yet still be healthy and should not be release back from where they came from. Example: I have 14 toad tadpoles in hopes of having a few females to keep, then letting the others go (not for breeding purpose). I also have Cope’s Grays raised from tads last year, and 2 Fowler’s toads, raised from toadlets last year. So releasing any of these would be bad for the population?
Consider a pacific chorus frog. You could collect from a disease free and healthy population. It gets exposed to chytrid from your Xenopus despite taking precautions. The chorus frog is visibly fine and can handle this. You release later back where you found it. Blammo.

This is how I understand it anyways. I don't know how many diseases out that can be spread around like this. Since I don't know, it's not something I would personally take a risk on.