This has a much higher chance of success with the limited space you're looking at, skylord0110. As a youngster, I helped my dad maintain a communal 55gallon. He was a 5th grade teacher and this was a setup he would do every year in his class and break it down to release the animals when summer came along. The general setup was a piece of glass that was siliconed on one side to create a water area roughly 12x12x6 inches, the rest of the aquarium land. The land had a short layer of gravel for drainage and then topsoil on top with a couple small tropical plants added for cover/basking. He'd typically stock it with a few local tree frog species, green anoles(limit 1 male, several females is fine), a rough green snake and a few tadpoles in the water area. The key to keeping this setup successfully was everything either being insectivorous, sexually compatible, or not large enough to eat a tank mate.