You can learn more about newt toxins from the Caudata Culture web site at: http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/toxin2.shtml. Most species of newts have various levels of toxin. Tarichatoxin or Tetrodotoxin can be fatal to humans.
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Re: Can Pacific Chorus Frogs and Rough skin newts be housed together?
You can learn more about newt toxins from the Caudata Culture web site at: http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/toxin2.shtml. Most species of newts have various levels of toxin. Tarichatoxin or Tetrodotoxin can be fatal to humans.
Terry Gampper
Nebraska Herpetological Society
“If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.”
--- Adrian Forsyth
Re: Can Pacific Chorus Frogs and Rough skin newts be housed together?
They cannot be mixed. Taricha granulosa is the most toxic newt on earth, and is among the most toxic animals. Even though they live together in the wild doesn't mean they can be successfully housed in a standard enclosure. The newt could do harm to the frog without even touching it, via toxin contamination.
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