Yeh, I'll have to jump on the bandwagon of feeding toads to you snake is not good. Not only is there a very good chance of intruducing a parasite to your snakes, you could also introduce something else. Anytime you feed with a "wild caught" animal....what ever that animal happens to bring along with it, goes into your snake. I really don't think it's worth it....in my earlier days of reptile and invert. keeping, I lost several animals to some "mystery" cause after feeding them a wild caught prey item. I just don't risk it anymore....the world is just too full of nasty stuff that I don't want to expose my animals to. (Believe me I know!....I test water and soil samples all the time...it's my job!) And even though I know there are those who are going to say...."Well they'd be exposed to it in the wild.", the snakes aren't in the wild, they're in captivity and they under our care and we should do the best to try and not expose them to such threats. Sorry, but this is a bit of a sore spot for me. While at the pet store I heard about how people would "experiment" with their animals just to see what it'd eat. It usually ended up with one or two animals suffering needlessly. There is plenty of clean, healthy prey animals available for sale to go out and just pick something up. Ok I'm done now.
