Compatibillity charts

[BenJT]

I would like to see a compatibillity chart so that people comming to this site would know only mix animals with overlapping ranges which aren't aggressive towards eachother.

[Killian]

Good idea Ben, I will get working on it contributions would be welcome.

Killian

[BenJT]

Well the two smaller english species are compatible with eachother, and with english toads and frogs on the grounds that adults won't eat eachother. I've read though that larger triturus have been known to eat the occasional adult vulgarus or helveticus. You would obviously have to make a very complex chart and do a lot of research on ranges, interspecies relationships of animals around the world, I could start working on such a large endevour with a little bit of help. I would need to know habitats, temperatures, predetor/prey relationships, hybridisation possibillities, terretorial bevaviour, distribution, potential of carrying a toxin/desease potentially harmful to vivarium mates of a different species, and diet of all European herps, because I think Europe would be a good starting point.

[Killian]

That would be great Ben if you made one for us. I think the best way to make this is through the advise of other keepers that have done these things successfully in the past. I have never mixed amphibians but I know other members of the board do. any help for Ben would be most apprecaited.

Thanks

[BenJT]

Well using range maps I managed to produce an incredibly vague and primitive one for all european caudates. Basically all it specifies is if the animals have over lapping ranges and about to combinations which I'm pretty sure can be housed together. Unfortunately my sources are a little old, so I need to split up cristatus and marmoratus into more species and salamandra into subspecies when I get better maps.