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Although it's prob not a good idea to let them go, it's probably not a problem either. I've been reading this thread and I hate to see people get too fanatic or "scared" of something that might not be a problem. The chytrid prob with frogs, nobody knows where that came from. It could've have been here for millions of years, coming in waves over time. And the flue-like problem with our native tortoises announced years ago, we haven't heard much more about that, all I've seen out in the wild have looked healthy to me. At least it was the toads being talked about. I scanned this thread at first and thought, "Oh no, this guy is afraid to let Springtails go back to nature." haha. A fungal or bacterial infection a toad will get in captivity is going to be everywhere in nature, nature keeps it in check. Let the toad go and nature will probably take care of the toads infection if it's not too bad, just like the grain mite problem the invert hobby has, it's not a typical prob in nature because of the pred mites and other factors in it's natural environment. And a "deadly strain" coming from the hobby doesn't sound realistic to me, are there any biochemist, pathologists, etc. here that could state the odds here? I just need to see more hard core info about this kind of thing and I'm ready to look at it if somebody can show me. There is probably a lot to look at, I simply haven't looked for the info yet. I think of dead cow carcasses in a small tank in nature, tadpoles swimming around there, fecal run-off, these guys can put up with a lot.
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