Rough Green Snakes and Anoles
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What benefit will the animals get out of your plan?
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They don't need it and won't actually find other species to be "company".
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Keep them seperate please.
The snake might enjoy a fresh buffet as company, but it's not likely going to be a mutual feeling with the lizards and frogs. At least before they are killed, probably heavy amount of stress put in them. Perhaps consider isopods for a frog tank.
The snake might enjoy a fresh buffet as company, but it's not likely going to be a mutual feeling with the lizards and frogs. At least before they are killed, probably heavy amount of stress put in them. Perhaps consider isopods for a frog tank.
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It doesn't benefit any of the animals. Period. The anoles will make use of every bit of the tank. So to say that they'll be at the top and won't be near the "chubby" frog at the bottom is incorrect.
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You're failing to consider the risk you've already put on your wild-caught animals by exposing them to each other's pathogens. Did you quarantine and get these all vet checked? Strongyloides and Rhabdias are common in WC frogs, and are a vector of these helminths to each other and to Anolis sp. Adding more pathogen vectors is not going to improve the situation.
Best not to keep WC herps in any event. There's enough pressure on these animals without the heavy death rates in the wild collection business, and without keeping them in multispecies housing that isn't doing them any good. WC animals should be reserved for keepers with the ability and desire to breed them to provide CB animals for keepers who would like a pet or display animal.
Moving frogs around the world and then mixing their diseases is how we created such a nasty chytrid problem that has made something like 90 frog species extinct. Best we stop that sort of thing.
Best not to keep WC herps in any event. There's enough pressure on these animals without the heavy death rates in the wild collection business, and without keeping them in multispecies housing that isn't doing them any good. WC animals should be reserved for keepers with the ability and desire to breed them to provide CB animals for keepers who would like a pet or display animal.
Moving frogs around the world and then mixing their diseases is how we created such a nasty chytrid problem that has made something like 90 frog species extinct. Best we stop that sort of thing.