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[CluelessScot]

Hello all,
I found a shop where i can buy tanks really cheap like 5,7,10,15,20 gallon tanks, but just the tank, no lid light ect so i was wondering if i could keep something different in a 10 gallon tank? I was thinking like a newt or a crab or something along these lines.

What would i need to buy if i were to get a newt or a crab?

Filter, light, heater?

any advice welcome

Kev

 

[Bloo]

I've never kept them, but I think Ornate Horned Frogs (Pacman frogs) are just the bees knees ! Especialy the Albino ones
Do a search here on the forum for Boris
Never mind - I've done it for you - here's Boris !

Or google image search.

 

[CluelessScot]

wow, really nice. would they be hard to care for tho...

 

[Bloo]

From what I understand and have read - not at all
Here's a care sheet but there are loads more info on google.

 

[moray]

Hi horned frogs are lovely but get big, 10 gallon will be to small for an adult one. you can get smaller frogs and toads, they all will need a filter. Oriental fire bellied toads are small, pretty and quite hardy, you could have 2 or 3 in a 10 gallon tank, they need land and filtration.

 

[CluelessScot]

Now that sounds good... Oriental fire bellied toads. Apart from the tank would would i need to but, Heater, light ect?

 

[tekkamaki]

Now that sounds good... Oriental fire bellied toads. Apart from the tank would would i need to but, Heater, light ect?

I have a fire-bellied toad in a 10gallon. I have a mixture of soil substrate and gravel and some live plants. A heater isn't required but they will need water. I have a large shallow bowl with pond rocks leading into it that it just oxygenated. I change it every few days since frogs are used to standing pond/puddle water.

 

[moray]

they need at least a quarter land, soil, bark and spagnum moss. Water needs to be quite shallow 4 inches or so, they like an even shallower area (so they sort of sit in the water with their heads sticking out). Water needs a filter, and water temp should be 70 - 75, the rest of the area should be up to 78 to 85 during the day, can go down to 70 - 75 at night. - heat lamps have been known to dry them out so an alternative heat source would be better.

 

[guppler]

I've kept hermit crabs in 10g tanks. Most recently I had a few in a tank with gravel substrate and a container of sand and a shallow container of water and a wire top on the whole thing. Oh, yeah, and don't forget things to climb on! I was considering a rock type reptile heater and instruments to measure temp and humidity and maybe a mister. I have a tank now that I've thought about putting hermies in again, but my wire top got old and I don't want stuff crummbling off and falling in, so I might use the flourescent light hood that's on the tank, but turing on the light might dry them up.
My best crab was the one I had when i was a kid for about 5 years. I called her Shelly. She lived in a fishbowl type glass candy bowl that usually didn't even have a top on it, so if her climbing "trees" were too close to the round whole at the top she might escape, which really freeked out the house sitter once. (imagine a little girl's pet scaring a big man! He scoopped her up on a piece of paper so he wouldn't have to touch her.) Anyway, we just poured a glass of water in to keep her gravel moist and she usually did fine, but Austin was probably a lot more humid that Sacramento. She finally died from drying out right before we moved because she was living right under a lamp and maybe didn't get enough water or something for a little too long. I've never had another crab last longer than about a year, but Shelly was wonderful. I wish I could get another one just like her. She loved to try on new shells and once we even took her clothes shopping at Michaels and let her choose her own new clothes right there at the store. She rode in my mom's purse and the lady at the store actually kind of liked watching the critter crawl around and explore a selection of sea shells. She liked murexes best, which was cool with me, because I liked to tie a shoe string to the spiky end that sticks out and take her for walks on her leash.
We've also kept rodents in 10g aquariums, especially leakers, which are sometimes even suitable for crabs.
I haven't had a reptile or amphibian yet, but I'm considering it.