[Guest]

I just bought a 20x16x20 tank thinking I would get some larger frogs. Then I decide to get some amazonicus, so my question is do you guys think this size is big enoigh to put in a trio of amazonicus and some ground dwellers and if so what??? There is a lot of room on the bottom that the amazonicus won't use and it's pretty tall so I am going to be putting in a lot of broms and stuff.

 

[kyle1745]

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think the larger frogs would eat the smaller ones. Always better and less stressful to have them in sperate tanks.

I just bought a 20x16x20 tank thinking I would get some larger frogs. Then I decide to get some amazonicus, so my question is do you guys think this size is big enoigh to put in a trio of amazonicus and some ground dwellers and if so what??? There is a lot of room on the bottom that the amazonicus won't use and it's pretty tall so I am going to be putting in a lot of broms and stuff.

 

[Scott]

They might try to eat the froglets of thumbnails, but they're not going to try and eat adults of thumbnails.

Unless you're keeping African or American Bullfrogs with them.

I know many people who have kept combinations like Azureus / Imitator together.

The general feeling is... if you're trying to breed them, keep them separate.

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Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think the larger frogs would eat the smaller ones. Always better and less stressful to have them in sperate tanks.

 

[jbeetle]

Well, this totally depends on what two frogs you are going to combine. If you were to go with terribilis, well then I wouldn't keep any thumbnails with them. You would have some nice fat terribilis, but wouldn't be able to find those amazonicus lol. Tincs, leuc, and auratus would probably be better... maybe a dwarf tinc morph? I have also noticed that my Red amazonicus spend 90%+ of the time on the ground... so that might also come into account. But if you are going to breed, I wouldn't really combine anything like Scott said.

 

[dvknight]

We keep 1.1 Suriname cobalt tinctorious with 3.1 imitator in a 90 gallon. All animals are extremely healthy, but obviously have enough room that they are not bothering each other. Your vivarium appears as though it is probably too small to attempt such a combination.

On a side note, it is really amazing how much more active the imitator are in this size of an enclosure, compared to their former 29 gallon home.

 

[kyle1745]

Interesting, on the imitators, mine are in a 15gal high and are not that active.

We keep 1.1 Suriname cobalt tinctorious with 3.1 imitator in a 90 gallon. All animals are extremely healthy, but obviously have enough room that they are not bothering each other. Your vivarium appears as though it is probably too small to attempt such a combination.

On a side note, it is really amazing how much more active the imitator are in this size of an enclosure, compared to their former 29 gallon home.

 

[Guest]

I agree that the tank is too small for such a mix. I have mixed offspring from frogs (reared to adults) in tanks from 50-90 gallons with good luck in the past. I say offspring meaning that I had a bunch of them, so they weren't the main frogs for breeding at that time. They will breed just fine in a big enough mixed tank, but I didn't risk it. I would stick with more of an arboreal quinquevittatus group frogs (imitator group) to avoid any problems.
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