Diver - I have also read many things about frogs, particularly red eyed tree frogs, who have impaction issues and rectal prolapse from ingesting things in their soil, whether it's bark pieces, moss pieces or etc. I mod a red eyed tree frog group and have seen it over and over and over in the last couple
of years. I do not see any benefit into allowing your frog to ingest their vivaria substrate. This is why SUPPLEMENTS are important. I'm not sure if you're new to the hobby and that's why you're so particularly passionate of your specific way of doing things, or if you're old to the hobby and come from a time when supplements were not as refined as they are now. I have bioactive substrate in my vivariums and still would not condone allowing accidental ingestion of substrate. I still see bits and pieces of stuff that I would not want in my frogs' intestines. It's from stuff that helps to encourage drainage when planting a naturalistic vivarium. My darts do not get fed in a sterile method, but they do not take large mouthfuls of substrate as tree frogs do, they delicately snap up their prey.

You seem to think that "over there" you guys do things so much better and differently than we do in the states. Strangely enough, when talking to other people from Europe, particularly England but not only England, the hobby in your part of the world is not very different than over here.

Ulysses - I get that you were joking now, but we have had many members here in the past who would not be joking about that kind of stuff which is why I tend to take it a bit more seriously Hard to convey sarcasm through text.