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I just got two very healthy happy fire belly toads. They are my first pair of fire bellys and I want them to stay happy and healthy. I am currently using a 10 gallon tank and am working on upgrading to a 20 , or maybe a 30 gallon terrarium. I wanted to know if there are any other amphibians, reptiles, or fish that will get along with the toads. I also was wondering what type of plants they like the best.
Also, are the meal worm's exoskeletons too hard for the toads to eat?

Never mix species is the rule of thumb. If you add fish be prepared for them to become a meal which you really don't want unless they are guppies. The dorsal fin on most fish can harm the insides of the toad. However, guppies and goldfish are okay. Now, goldfish aren't that great in that they produce a lot of ammonia and are fatty and not very nutritious for the toads.

Now, to counter-attack what I just said.....before I found out all of this information, I had added danios, white cloud minnows, and ghost shrimp. None of my toads ever ate them. One of my fbts did attack a ghost shrimp but never caught him. It looked more like a game to the fbt.

As for mealworms, don't give the big ones unless you take off their heads. I only feed the baby ones and even then do it as a treat or when I run out of other types of food. They aren't that great for them nutritionally speaking.

Hope I've helped.

Thank You very much. I think I will try the guppies. They deserve a treat! Plus I think it will give them something to do, the crickets aren't much of a challenge for them.

the pics below are of my old setup, i will try to put some of my new one in a 40 gal breeder up soon. i have mine in with rosie reds, gold/white clouds, leapord & zebra danios and ghost shrimp. i have a few small bromeliads, a large arum, a cluster of pothos above water, the broms are planted on the wood in the tank. in the water i have a few dwarf amazon swords and a few wendti (?). they tank is setup as fully aquatic with several large pieces of malaysian driftwood and ghost wood in the tank. there is alos a lot of live moss in the tank. i have a fluval 1 series filter making a water fall at one end of the tank and a decrotive reptofilter waterfall at the other end, which i put a 170 ghp pump in to increase water flow. the substrate is flourite clay gravel. there are 5 oriential fbt's, 1 european fbt, 1 japanese fbn, and one chinese fbn. as for those who will critize this mix, i have not lost one fish (other than being eaten) or any toads or newts in the six years they have all been together. not saying something bad could happen, but i have never once had a problem (other than one extemely humpy toad). i will see if i can post pice tomorrow, but the ones below are of the old, more basic setup.

Thats good to hear I would like to see pics of your new setup. I got some guppies and so far the toads haven't had much interest in them. I would really like a fire belly newt or two when I get a bigger setup. I have two mystery snails for about three weeks now and they are doing well, I have to feed them algae wafers though my tank doesn't get dirty very fast.

sorry it took so long, but here are some pics of their enclosure.
there are: 5 korean firebelly toads (Bombina orientalis)
1 yellow bellied toad (Bombina variegata)
1 japanese firebelly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster)
1 chinese firebelly newt (Cynops orientalis)
approx. 20 zebra danios
" " 10 leopard danios
" " 10 white clouds
" " 5 gold white clouds
" " 6 large rosie reds
there are several species of aquatic plants, including dwart amazon swords, Cryptocoryne wendtii (green and bronze), and java moss. there are also two arum and a pothos that grow out of the water with roots submerged. the wood in the tank is a mis of ghost wood and malaysian drift wood. there are several species of locally collected pillow and sheet mosses throughout the tank as well.

forgot about the bromieliads on the ghost wood to. here are more pics.