Possible herps for Sev tank?

[CretaceousCreatures101]

I'm planning on setting up a 220 gallon tank with severums, a convict, a blood parrot, honduran red points, nanoluteus, geos, rainbow cichlids, a flag cichlid, a sajica, and a chocolate.
I was curious if there were any small turtles I could keep with these guys, or even amphibians (African clawed frog, axolotl, etc)?

 

[snakefin]

I'm planning on setting up a 220 gallon tank with severums, a convict, a blood parrot, honduran red points, nanoluteus, geos, rainbow cichlids, a flag cichlid, a sajica, and a chocolate.
I was curious if there were any small turtles I could keep with these guys, or even amphibians (African clawed frog, axolotl, etc)?

How many tanks are you planning? You can go with that turtle sticky we have at the top of the forum.

Amphibians no good, if I'm assuming correctly that the cichlids are fairly aggressive. No caudata (salamanders, newts, axolotls) because the temperature range is completely out of sync.

 

[CretaceousCreatures101]

How many tanks are you planning? You can go with that turtle sticky we have at the top of the forum.

Amphibians no good, if I'm assuming correctly that the cichlids are fairly aggressive. No caudata (salamanders, newts, axolotls) because the temperature range is completely out of sync.

I've just been brainstorming a lot of tank ideas lately, lol. I just got my hands on an old 220 gallon tank and I've decided to use it for the sevs and other cichlids. I'll probably go with a pair of mud turtles but I've kept large African clawed frogs with a few baby oscars, a clown knife, and a tiger shovelnose catfish so maybe that would work. Not with the turtles, though, when I was little I put a clawed frog with the baby turtles I caught and he was quickly eaten...



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[snakefin]

Oh I see. Don't take my word for certain but I see the possibility of injury with amphibians because they tend to be without any source of protection in the sense that they don't have scales. It seems to me to be quite shocking that you were able to keep ACFs with large predatory fish and come out fine, but well it's been done.


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[CretaceousCreatures101]

Oh I see. Don't take my word for certain but I see the possibility of injury with amphibians because they tend to be without any source of protection in the sense that they don't have scales. It seems to me to be quite shocking that you were able to keep ACFs with large predatory fish and come out fine, but well it's been done.


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Yeah, the acf was really big and the fish were only medium-sized, not sure if that's a factor. I found that the frog was usually just swimming along the bottom, so that's why the oscars left him alone. My clown knife was always hiding, even at night (I was told that they were nocturnal), and my tsc just sat in the corner of the tank all day.


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[CTU2fan]

Yea it's definitely hit or miss. Hypothetically a large ACF could coexist with some more peaceful cichlids, but those frog toes will be snacks to anything nippy.

Since you're looking at mostly SA cichlids maybe look into a Suriname toad, something a little different but also large and fully aquatic.

That's going to be some serious depth for mud or must turtles to cope with.

 

[snakefin]

I like the idea of suriname with SA cichlids too. Not sure on whether or not they're easy to maintain in captivity though, it is likely that they will be susceptible to diseases that other frogs won't be.

 

[CretaceousCreatures101]

I like the idea of suriname with SA cichlids too. Not sure on whether or not they're easy to maintain in captivity though, it is likely that they will be susceptible to diseases that other frogs won't be.

I'll do more research on the suriname but I think I'll probably end up trying map turtles or painteds, I think CTU is right that the water might be a bit too deep for the muds.