Quote Originally Posted by Treefrognewbie View Post
Okay, so ; a friend on facebook, is a friend with a world famous herptologist. And my friend told me, that the herptologist said, you can mix species, as long as they aren't from different continents. I don't know if this is true, but he is a herptologist. And a famous one at that!

This was not intended to start any forum drama <img src="http://www.frogforum.net/images/smilies/smile.png" border="0" alt="" title="Smile" smilieid="1" class="inlineimg"> ; just spreading some info i heard
As a general statement, that's a load of rubbish. Maybe it was purple-monkey-dish-washered from "Never mix frogs form different continents" into what you've said here (the one does not imply the other). That would be common advice on the grounds of no natural resistance to foreign diseases (think smallpox and Native Americans).

Common example cited in books on species in my area (Ontario) is the Pickerel Frog. It will do in other species that could have been collected from the same pond if you put them in a confined space together (like a terrarium, or a bucket) by its toxins. Forget same continent, this is the same pond. (edit- and a prime example of why you should NEVER EVER mix species if you don't know what you are doing)