I agree. I wasn't suggesting canned bugs as a real alternative to live bugs, just putting one in as an alternative to something less digestible, since you've got to feed the food anyway while it's in there. But since whatever I use is going to get eaten sometimes if it has crickets or roaches on it, unless I start putting like entire full-sized carrots or something in there (the one she swallowed was a half of a mini-carrot cut lengthwise, so pretty big items are still an ingestion risk)I figure I might as well make the thing she's going to eat sometimes a dusted bug. This is a 17 ounce toad I'm talking about, so one grasshopper or snail isn't going to kill her appetite. She'll still have room for a few death head roaches.
I don't worry much about moisture content of food. I use sphagnum as a substrate (one reason I prefer roaches is they stay in the food dish, so moss ingestion isn't a problem. With crickets, I leave food for them in the dish and let her stake it out and ambush them there, but moss gulps will occasionally happen, so I haven't used them in a few months, at least not for her) so I can keep it very damp without bacteria becoming a problem. Plus, she soaks regularly anyway. Always goes to the bathroom in her dish, in fact, which is another reason I don't worry about keeping the substrate wetter than many suggest. At least not in this particular setup, with this particular toad. Others may vary.
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