What could live in a 20 gallon long that is semi aquatic ?

[dillymann]

I want to make a community tank out of my 20 gallon long aquarium make it have a land section but also be a living eco system any ideas on what i could have?


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[MootWorm]

This is quite the undertaking... Just want to let you know this will be extremely intensive, in both time spent to build it and maintanence. I would probably go with a larger aquarium. Do you want it to house species that will be restricted to land or water, or something that can use both? You could do something like a firebelly newt with a few small fish.

[anatess]

Frogs.

[dillymann]

Ya i basically want a vivarium with a water section an some fish and another animal that can live on land and in water


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[dillymann]

What kind of frogs


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[anatess]

What kind of frogs


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You can have several dart frogs in there (they're super colorful!) or a couple pacmans (very cool looking too).

[dillymann]

Are they semi aquatic?


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[jclaiborne]

I don't know about dart frogs, but everyone I have talked to said Pacmans are terrible swimmers. I built a viv that is 60% water and 40% land out of a gallon and it is still sitting empty because I haven't heard of anything I could really put in there other than a fire belly toad or a newt. I wanted dart frog, but keep getting conflicting stories about their ability to swim.

[MootWorm]

Everything I've read on PDF says they're fine in a paludarium. They're not really semi aquatic, but they do sometime sit in shallow puddles of water. The biggest threat is that they'll fall into the water and drown. But if you have properly sloped sides and plenty of footholds, and the water's not too deep, they should be able to get back onto land safely. But PDF are pretty sure footed, and I haven't come across any instances in which they've fallen into the water.

If you're looking for an animal that uses both water and land portions, you're very limited in your options. Best bet would be a few fish plus a terrestrial animal on the land side.

[anatess]

I don't know about dart frogs, but everyone I have talked to said Pacmans are terrible swimmers. I built a viv that is 60% water and 40% land out of a gallon and it is still sitting empty because I haven't heard of anything I could really put in there other than a fire belly toad or a newt. I wanted dart frog, but keep getting conflicting stories about their ability to swim.

PACMANS AND DART FROGS CAN DROWN IN STANDING WATER. Although pacmans love to soak in shallow water- water does not go past their mouths. They have really high humidity requirements so they do well in rainforest set-ups - waterfall effect over river rocks. I've seen super awesome eye catching setups.

If you want standing water, there are really stunning Southeast Asian semi-aquatic frogs. Dunno how easy they are to find in the US but they're super common in the Philippines.