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does anyone have any experience with mixed tanks. Whether its good or bad experiences id love to hear how it turned out and your observations on the frogs interaction and aggression.

You may not get many first hand experiences here about here about mixing different dart frog species, so in order to simply keep this post going until someone else comes along, I'll simply tell you about experiences of putting different things in a paludarium aquatic portion of the galactonotus tank. Along with tetras and plays, I added a couple of red clawed crabs shortly after I set everything up. They immediately marched up the water falls, invaded the terrestrial portions of the tank, to annoy the hell out of the frogs, if not actually harming them physically. I separated them about the time they'd taken over the frog huts and hides, disturbing the plants on the land, waving their claws around. While their activities were not fatal, they were certainly disruptive to the terrestrial portion of the tank. The cray fish, supposedly a tropical miniature species, climbed out and went like moles through the substrate. I isolated them. So much for crustaceans. The fish that eventually worked the best, were tetras in schools of different species. Eight years later, the galactonotus frogs, as well as most of the original tetras are still alive.

I'm about to try my first mixed dart frogs in a 180 gallon paludarium, and will go for tetras (and algae eaters, loaches only) in the water portion. The two species I plan to try together are D. galactonotus (yellow) and D. auratus (Ancon Hill.) They will be separated by a broad lagoon waterway of fish, but will be able to cross this barrier via logs, swimming or hopping across aquatic leaves. If I live long enough myself, I'll probably know something more about it personally in a couple of years. In the meantime, let's await some more immediate frog vs frog experiences.

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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue
D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
D. imitator
D. leucomelas
D. pumilio Bastimentos
D. fantasticus
P. terribilis mint and organe
D. reticulatus
D. castaneoticus
D. azureus
P vittatus
P. lugubris

that must have been kind of scary to have the crabs take over like that! thanks for sharing. i know theres more people out there with more mixed tank storys but probably arent to eager to admit to them.