After reading other introductions, i feel like I didn't introduce myself properly!

My name is Liz. I'm 31, live outside of Baltimore, MD with my husband Todd, 3 cats: Sam, Abby and Weasley, and 2 fish tanks. I'm a graphic designer and an artist.

A local! Yay! I love your froggie in your little Avatar pic. I'm really hoping the gray/green one he has is a dumpy. They are my #2 fave frog next to the Red Eye Tree Frog.

welcome to HC! glad you joined us. good luck!

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Hi schlegelbagel,

Welcome to Herp Center! Post some pics when you get all set up!

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Welcome to the HCN! I've never heard of Abingdon, but I live near Hanover, MD. It's nice to see someone else from my area! I'm into art myself as well

Good luck with the amphibians, but I have a few suggestions. The newt will be best of in an enclosure of it's own. They require much cooler temperatures than the other amphibians and won't fare as well if kept with them. The warm water weakens their immune system and makes them vulnerable to a variety of infections.

Ideally they should all get seperate enclosures. Although I've kept community amphibian habitats before, and it is possible, the species you mentioned are difficult to mix safely. The oriental fire-bellied toads are toxic and require a horizontal habitat with a lot of water. The tree frogs will do best in just the opposite; a vertical habitat and only a shallow dish of water (tree frogs are poor swimmers. Though it's possible to do without the vertical, they really will need a lot of branches and such for climbing. White's tree frogs (dumpy tree frog) also get large enough to eat your toads and potentially the red-eyes if hungry enough.

If you HAD to rely on only two enclosures though, this is how I'd do it: The newt gets one enclosure by itself. The others get an enclosure with much water, but with a lot of vines and branches to climb on. Perhaps a half land/half water habitat, or 1/3 land. The "red and black" frog might cause further complications though. I don't know what species it is, and thus don't know what type of habitat it requires.

One possibility is it's a red-banded rubber frog (Phrynomerus bifasciatus). This could be a problem, because they are both toxic and a burrowing species. Basically you're trying to mix warm and cold species, large and small species, arboreal, aquatic, and possibly a terrestrial species all in one habitat. It could prove difficult. Even though the previous owner pulled it off, that success could only be temporary. I'm not trying to dishearten you, just letting you know that those species may be harder to mix than thought.

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Abingdon is up 1-95 at exit 77, very close to BelAir. How much are you into art? I"m a graphic designer and went to MICA for college.

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well, the guy flaked. I have no frogs. My husband took me to the Aquarium Center and we picked up a 37 gallon tank. I'll start constructing today and get my own dumpy tree frogs in a month or so.

Oh I am so sorry to hear that! you have been putting so much work in it!

The good thing is that you dont have to be stressed over the different species all in the same tank, as Matt did have some excellent points.
Now you can get exactly what you want and set it up accordingly

Be sure and post pics as dumpys are so cute!

Art's just a hobby for me. Since I joined the military I've let it slip a little and have done more photography than drawing or painting because it's faster and easier to do with the space and resources I have.

Sorry about the frogs though. On the upside, just getting the dumpies will be much simpler than all those other species.

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i knew I was going to have to separate them all apart. I was going to see if I could get someone to adopt the newt and the fire bellys.

Yeah, i'll start out this the dumpies. They are fun, have ton's of personality and are better to handle than Red Eye Tree Frog. I was kind of depressed, but also kind of relieved when I found out the frogs weren't going to be mine.

Welcome !


What kind of tanks/fish do you keep ?

welcome!

i´m sure that here you´ll find a lot of useful info.

regarding the frogs you´re adpting, try to collect as much info as you can in order to avoid mistakes that can occur.

post some pics and

good luck