Legged Fish

Floating frogs (occidozyga lima - dunno if that's spelled right.). Provide floating plants and leave 2 inches or so without water at the top of the tank. A 55 gallon is probably too big for ADFs - it is too deep and the frogs actually like small water areas (in the wild they are often found quite happily living in puddles). In a 55 firebelly newts should do fine with fish if there are loads of floating plants and some floating cork bark for them to climb out onto. Again the water level will need to be reduced. Depending on the size and speed of your fish you could get a Spanish ribbed newt - again this needs cork islands, and can get up to 12 inches. If you want a slightly differernt community fish, how about a medium sized synodontis species? Marbled synos are peaceful, but not very active though. Synodontis nigrita and synadontis eupterus are active during the day, but I don't know how big they get. as far as I know they shouldn't bother community fish.
 
momar said:
Floating frogs (occidozyga lima - dunno if that's spelled right.). Provide floating plants and leave 2 inches or so without water at the top of the tank.
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I have seen these guys once at a store.. They are very hard to find in certain markets.

Size: Indonesian floating frogs hit the market at about an inch plus legs, sometimes a little bigger. They grow to a huge 1.5 inches.

Islands: Since floating frogs come from a country with 13,000 islands, you need to give them some islands. Low floating islands work best. Your frogs can hang on the lip or crawl out on the shore. They don’t drown without islands, but they seem to last a lot longer with these PFDs (personal flotation devices) as the yachting sect set says. Islands also serve as buffet counters. You can put foods like live California blackworms on the islands and let your floating frogs dine at leisure. If food falls to the floor of their tank, they’ll likely ignore it.

Security: Frogs live life on the edge (where the water meets the land) with threats from the land, from the water, and from the air. Still these guys are not particularly skittish. Half the time you can pick them up with no frantic frogginess. At other times they leap like Lords -- maybe as much as a foot on the initial leap. Each subsequent leap gets shorter and shorter. They would not impress the Energizer bunny. Give ’em their islands and they’re plenty secure.
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<br><br> we have 6 firebelly newts in our 110gal community tank. We've got watersprite that floats on the top of the water and a peice of floating wood. The tank is 36 inches deep, and the newts have no problem making to the bottom to scavenge and resurfacing for air. Has far as toxicity goes, I'm not sure, but so far they have not posed a problem for us. I am however sure that they have been feeding on guppy fry that also seek refuge in the watersprite.<BR><BR>
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They are also a hoot to hand feed. they are fickle eaters so you gotta switch it up a bit.
 
Fire bellied newts, see above. They are a little less toxic, but also less aquatic so they definitely need more land space. I do know that EMG has had much success with small tanks mixing fire bellies with fish, but generally it's not recommended.
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Well, yes...I have had great success with these newts....but they aren't in the water with the fish. I have them in a "river tank". There is a land portion, which is where the newts stay all the time. They never go into the water portion with the fish.

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i saw fire bellyd newts at my LFS about a month ago and they were all gone within a week or so, and i havent seen any since. i have heard that they do best in species tanks like he one mentioned above, and i think that that tank is one of the coolest ive seen lol
 
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