Quote Originally Posted by kittiekuddles View Post
I am currently setting up a terrarium. The tank is 220 gallons, 6 feet long, 24" wide and 31" tall
Plants will be Bromeliads, ferns, pothos and various tropical house plants. Bottom is river rocks and pea gravel for drainage, followed by a screen to separate the soil. Soil is a mix of peat and compost top soil about 3" deep
Other items in the tank will be driftwood, cork and tree limbs
Lighting will be 4x65 watt power compacts, i do have metal halides but i feel that may burn things lol (3x250 watt) so i will not be using those
Tank will be covered by glass lids with about 10% screened in the back for ventilation.
I also purchased a large lizard lagoon for soaking
I've gone through various species of frog and I came down to wanting a pair of White's Tree frog.
Then i thought the bottom floor of the terrarium will be kinda drab with no action going on, so is it possible to put a type of toad or other frog that stays on the terrarium floor and still be compatible with the whites frogs?
I was thinking of a Chubby frog or possibly an American toad (one or the other not both) and starting out at the same size.
Will anything like this work?

Well that is a large setup, and white tree frogs are large, tough, and bold eaters. If you want to mix species that isn't a species likely to suffer from it as long as a little common sense is used. The american toad is also a tough species that is a bold eater with a similar adult size( a large female toad would be best) and would likely do fine in there with a whites tree frog provided the size of the individual whites tree frog and the individual toad is similar so the one didn't try to eat the other. The "chubby frog" I wouldn't think was a good idea to mix for a couple of reasons, for one, the ones I have seen around are small enough that a large adult whites might try to eat one, for another they produce a sticky slime when stressed and would in my estimation be far more likely to cause a problem in that bi-species tank with a whites than the american toad.

Now I am only saying this because your post seems to be a cut above the average "can I keep my fire bellied toad with... " fill in the blank type posts. You seem to come across as the type of person that is capable of learning quite a bit in a short time. Mixing species can be done quite successfully, but you do need to be fairly knowledgeable about the species you have in mind as well as be the type of person that is observant, thinks things through, and has a certain amount of common sense. Otherwise your just flipping a coin with your frogs lives and health. Uninformed species mixers that have problems usually have them because they make bad choices due to not really know what they are doing. Because newbies to the hobby are usually the ones most likely to ask about mixing species and due to a lack of knowledge are also the ones most likely to make bad choices mixing species it isn't generally recommended period. It is just easier to say no period than to give a lengthy explanation about what will work, what will not work, and what might work but is a bad idea because it is a little to risky every time someone asks this question in one form or another. That said if a person does have common sense and enough knowledge to makes informed choices I don't have a problem with it and have done it myself upon occasion. It is up to you, but from the thought and detail you appear to have put into your post I think you are capable of doing it successfully should you wish to do so.