Comments on: Can I put a White’s Tree Frog with a Fire Bellied Toad?

By: fruitcake

fruitcake — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:58:59 +0000

actually you can, people say you can’t put frogs and toads together but if you research you will find you can keep them together, we got a book called popular amphibians and in there it has a section on the different species you can mix with no problem, if you do a 50/50 land and water tank your frogs and toads will be happy, the frogs like to be up the top of the terrarium and the toads like the bottom but will climb to the top occasionally, as long as you have a quarantine period we usually keep new frogs and toads separate for 3 weeks to make sure they are healthy before introducing them into a tank, as long as the frogs and toads (if the toads or frogs are smaller the bigger ones may eat them) are the same size you will have no problems and it make an interesting tank, you can also keep golden day geckos, in with them as well, best of luck honey
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have fire bellied toads and whites tree frogs

By: Brett Bell

Brett Bell — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:14:59 +0000

NO do not put anything but a fire bellied toad with a fire bellied toad. The fire bellied toad will release poisons onto it and anything it touches and the new toad will die.
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By: SPend_day

SPend_day — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:48:59 +0000

DONT MIX SPECIES.

common problems include

eating each other (its surprising what will at least try to eat what)
Attacking/ killing each other (2 animals that dont normally live together will sometimes fight.

stress (makes for ill reptiles just being near even a species from the same geological range can be stressful to these animals)

Incompatible toxins bacteria and illnesses (especially with phibs but is common with others 2 just cause one species can handle one type of bacteria/doesn’t mean they all can these animals evolved in totally different ways meaning there resistant to different things, as for toxins many phibs and invert have these as defence mechanisms and can easily kill or make the others ill)

mixing is not something for the inexperienced or something to be taken lightly its takes months of careful monitoring health checks and luck. do u really want to possibly harm your pets for some wild idea

if u really must mix
species from overlapping geological ranges
take the minimum enclosure sizes for both species add them together and then add 10-20 gallons and your looking at the minimum size for your tank
remember 1-3months quarantine for each animal
animals of same size only

mixing is never advised single species tanks only. yes there are mixed tanks in zoo’s (a common response i hear) but they have had years of experience as well as special training, have massive enclosures and are monitored 24 hours a day
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By: jonathan h

jonathan h — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:43:59 +0000

There are two main factors to think about when keeping different frogs, or toads in the same cage.
1. Size. If one is much bigger than the other it will eat it. White’s Tree frogs will beg large enough to eat a fire bellied toad, or at leas try.
2. Acidity. All amphibians have a slimy membrane surrounding their skin. This membrane has a certain pH level. This slim will get on the glass and other surfaces of the terrarium and could be harmful to frogs of different species. The toad is poisonous so it could harm the frog.

Frogs with the same or close acidity levels that are near the same size can be housed together, but it is always important to separate them when feeding. especially if the cage is small.
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By: Sammi

Sammi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:38:59 +0000

No fire bellied toads need more water than white tree frogs and fire bellied toads are posionus to humans so they might be posionus to white tree frogs
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