10 gallon per frog "Rule"?

[deranged chipmunk]

Nicely written article Paul. But, what if I want to keep my chinchilla, black rat snake,
King cobra and rocky, my pet flying squirrel in the tank with my dart frogs and tree frogs, do you have a formula for that?? Huh? Huh??


Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world ~ Nelson Mandela

[DigitalPunk]

I have a simple formula for that bill.

1 + 1 does not equal 2 when it comes to mixing species in a tank. It is typically frowned upon to mix species. Big warning bells go off is some peoples brains when they read that others are doing this, but at the same time other people see no harm in it and think the nay sayers are closed minded. I won't get into why one group is right or another group is wrong, but I will say that unless you have years and years of experience keeping frogs and have done an equal amount of researching this should not be attempted. Trust em I know the desire and the drive to try and recreate nature as much as possible in our homes, but we simply lack the square footage that Nature has and often put to species of animals that don't do well together right on top of each other.

For me the answer is simple. I am a smart enough person to know that 1. I simply don't know enough to attempt this yet. and 2. I don't make enough money to gamble an investment in my frogs and risk losing some or all of them. So I don't do it.


Much like the "10g Rule" this requires common sense and unfortunately this is not something that can be taught. Mixing will continue to cause much debating in the hobby and the only thing we can do (much like with the 10g rule) is continue to offer advice we know to work and be accurate to try and educate those who chose to interact with us.

I know your post was not a serious question from you, but was meant to bring another topic we see on the forums often to light. Talking about mixing or not mixing a tank is much like talking about politics. People take it all very personally and things tend to escalate rapidly.