Quote Originally Posted by Baelari View Post
If even mealworms carry a risk of impaction, I'd rather give mine a varied diet of softer shelled foods.
The issue with mealworms is not only are they somewhat hard shelled you can compact a whole lot of them in a small area creating almost a solid mass. Mealworm beetles would actually be a little safer even though they are harder. Even with mealworms though issues are the exception rather than common and are generally the result of feeding far far to many at one time. That can be avoided by a little common sense. Just because your toad or frog might be willing to eat half his body weight in mealworms in one sitting that doesn't mean you should feed him that many. A complete avoidance of anything hard shelled in the diet of amphibians out of fear of impaction would the equivalent of of a human avoiding pretzels because George W. Bush choked on one and almost passed out once. Yes, there is a small theoretical risk there but in practice it is so small as to not be worth worrying about as long as a little common sense is used.