"Tankmates"?
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I think the easiest things to mix are house geckos, anoles, and small treefrogs. I have a female brown anole and two gray treefrogs in a small vivarium and have had no problems in four months.
rudukai13;3895754; said:
There are few if any geckos in that category. Remember, the scheltopusik can grow to 5 feet in length, and while its gape is not quite as large as a 5' constrictor's, it can still eat fairly large lizards. Besides, the big geckos are all nocturnal tropical forest species, while the scheltopusik is a diurnal temperate grassland species. Different temperature regimes, different lighting, different humidity.
I sympathize with your urge, but it's just not a good idea. If you want a scheltopusik, set up a proper cage for it. If you want an arboreal gecko, set up a proper cage for it. Keeping them together is a recipe for disaster.
You could try it with one of the american species but the condicions of the frog would be incopatible with the lizard´s as the pool needed would create to much moist. If you can find scheltopusik then you SHOULD really grab the chance and buy not only one but a few actualy. Here they are a disapearing species from the hobby because few people keep and bred them, most are elderly and they sell for ridiculous prices, also they are in apex A of the european convention, wich is a big bummer because they are deligthfull and a super hardy species. If you like them get yourself some big tanks and consentrate on breeding them before there avaibility in the states also decrease and they are gone from the hobby.
I've seen (and kept) a number of mixed species desert setups, with lizards like plateds, uromastyx, beardies, etc. I've also kept the typical multi-small lizard/frog set up. It can be done, I personally don't see it as much different than maintaining a community of large solitary fish from various regions of the globe/water conditions that most of us do all the time on MFK. I've currently got a bunch of turtles from various places living with a dwarf caiman.
A possibly successful tank mate for one of the American glass lizards would be a big skink, such as the broadhead or Great Plains skink. They are fairly similar in overall habitat needs, and close enough in size that predation should not be an issue.
I'll have to think about it. I wouldn't be able to do anything like this for a while at least, so I've got some time. I really like legless lizards, but I also find arboreal reptiles interesting as well, so it'd be nice to try and find one of each that could live together. Thanks for all the info everyone!
Dude if your into glass lizards get yourself some scheltopusik you wont regret, they are super hardy and trully nice lizards that dont anywere deserve the under dog possition they so often face. I would love to get a few but they are allmost unobteinable here because the people that brougth them cheaply in the past dint care about breedingrudukai13;3897928; said:
