
Originally Posted by
lorenjas
Its really easy to do safely with research, I'm just annoyed at how many people on the Internet give opinions without having done anything similar. With a little bit of research you can easily set up a comminal cohabitating tank. Combining many type of frogs is a bad idea, a white's would eat a green tree frog as well as a firebelly toad but it would likely pick up toxins from the toad. If you do set up a tank with other species try sticking to one frog type or at least choose 2 different types that occupy different areas of the tank (ground level terrestrial frog and an arboreal for example, that way food competition and territory battles don't concur as much / or much at all if your tank is large enough with many hiding spots. Obviously more animals means a lot larger space, the larger the space the less conflict you risk.
I see you point on toxins more clearly, and I agree with your statement, I just feel a tiny bit of research would Easily let someone know if an animal is toxic to another.
The lab and cheetah have quite a bit to do with it really, It's an example of interspecie cohabitation and how animals can go outside their normal family for companionship. They wereb inteoduced as birth and are rhe same age, no surrogacy there. I'll admit most amphibians / reptiles don't have nearly the same drive for companionship as mammals, but I'd you think my bearded dragon hasn't bonded to me and doesn't enjoy being held and played with well then I say you've either never owned one or didn't treat it right. Reptiles can and do form bonds with their owners, to varying degrees depending upon species.