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Re: fire-belly newt with dwarf frogs and fiddler crabs?

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Posted by jennewt on November 13, 2002 at 21:40:27:

In Reply to: fire-belly newt with dwarf frogs and fiddler crabs? posted by joeyjoe on November 12, 2002 at 20:46:55:

:Hi, I have a 30 gallon tank set up, nicely set up with ledges and plants (some floating plants and a floating driftwood). It has a power filter and is held at a constant tempature at around 70-75 degress. It currently has 2 goldfish, a pleco, some snails, and 3 ADF's. It's been this set up for about 3 months now and I've decided that the frogs don't really use all of the ledges and above water features of the tank, so I'm considering getting some fiddler crabs and a chinese fire-belly newt. Can these co-habitate with the ADF's? I hear that fiddler crabs won't hurt a fly, but the big claw on the male makes me uneasy so I just might get 2 female crabs instead of one of each. I've heard of people keeping ADF's together with newts, so I'm not sure if I should be worried about that either. Well, I haven't gotten either of those yet and I'm not sure if I will if it's a bad idea. Thanks!

Plecos are not suitable for keeping with newts, they have been known to suck on the newts. I tried keeping ADF with newts for a while. The ADF died on two separate attempts. I think that the water was too deep for them, or the newts just stressed them out, or it was too cold for them. Here are some links that may explain the mixing issue further:
http://www.kingsnake.com/forum/treefrog/messages/4398.html
http://www.caudata.org/caudatecentral/editor/spmix.html
http://www.kingsnake.com/forum/newt/messages/4455.html




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