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are they ok with each other?

Most species of salamander are terrestrial and require completely different environments to live in than aquatic mud puppies. If you had a large tank and rigged up some type of elaborate setup it might be possible, but I certainly wouldn't attempt it. It would be easier and save a lot of trouble to keep them seperate. Good luck,
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Devin Edmonds
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I am making a terrarium with branches, caves, and a large pond. Would it work in that?

Rather than design a cage and then figure out what to put it in, it would be better to figure out what type of animal you want to keep and design the cage around its needs. What do you want to keep? Should it be diurnal, nocturnal, active, colorful, large, small, what are you looking for? If you were asking what combination of different animals can be kept in your cage, it's probably best to avoid mixing species. Good luck,
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Devin Edmonds
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I've seen terrariums with several different species in it, and it made me want to do that. It is going to be a 70 gallon, so they have lots of space. I was thinking of a Marbled Salamander, two Flying Geckos, a Mud Puppy, and three Dendrobates tinctorius Tree Frogs. A pet store i asked ssaid that since they each live differently, they would get along fine. Is this true?

Or, if i took out the tow flying gecko's, and replaced it with a single 8 inch giant gecko, would it work?

(nevermind the giant gecko part)

Whatever petshop told you that should be avoided like the plague. The species you listed should not be kept together. They are all from different locations and all have different requirements.
For example -- keeping a dart frog in a tank with a sizeable body of water in it (which the mudpuppy needs) would be a disaster. Dart frogs are not great swimmers for the most part and once it hit the water the mudpuppy would snap it up thinking it was a bug.

That is just one scenerio here. Don't attempt this.

You will only end up spending a lot of money and having a bunch of dead or unhealthy animals at best.

Hmm, ok. Well, is there any combination that includes flying geckos that would work?

Well, one of the problems with keeping reptiles and amphibians (especially salamanders) in the same cage is that reptiles typically need some type of basking light or temperature gradient while salamanders generally like things cooler and moister because of their permeable skin. With enough room for them all to hide, it might be possible to keep different species FROM THE SAME REGION together, but for the tank you describe the salamander would probably hide constantly, not feed well and be harassed by the geckos, and anything that fell in the substantial body of water would run the risk of drowning and/or end up as food for the mudpuppy. Also, the geckos would probably be too cold and the mudpuppy and the salamander uncomfortably hot.