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Originally Posted by jellyman
As long as the same precautions are taken as when setting up a single species enclosure health issues are not any different.
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After re-reading this post , I had to ask a few questions and post a few facts.
Could you please let us know exactly what precautions you take before setting up a single or multi-species tank? I am curious as to the exact quarantine procedure.
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Originally Posted by jellyman
Unless these are wild frogs, mixing frogs from different parts of the globe is not a health issue.
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This is incorrect. Simply, if WC luecs come in with Chytrid ,and were not tested and treated they can pass it to any frog they produce and can also pass it right along to
any other frogs worked with.
If the auratus WC had hookworms and were not tested
any frogs they produce can potentially have hookworms.
If the azureus WCs came in with coccidia and were not tested and/or treated , any froglets produced can be infected with coccidia. Coccidia in in-curable in darts.
Bottom line. If the founding stock has not been tested and treated for ailments found it is impossible to state the health of the founders. It is then impossible to say that mixed tanks are not harboring a mix of disease from Costa Rica, Suriname, and Venezuela if the offspring from said untesteds are co-mingling. You can not tell the full health of a frog from looking at it. And you can not tell the full health of a frog from one simple test. To say that CBs can not cross contaminate is simply incorrect.
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Originally Posted by jellyman
The frogs should still be tested just to make sure they are clean and free of disease and parasite due to the conditions and care of the person from which you purchased the frogs.
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Correct. The standard would be three consecutive clean fecal tests and checking to see exactly where the frogs came from to understand what other testing may be needed beside the three clean fecals.
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Originally Posted by jellyman
I have mixed leucs and azureus in several enclosures and they tend to ignore each other. On the rare occassion, I have had frogs that showed aggression, and were seperated to either solo enclosures or matched up as a pair only enclosure. You will find that when trying to add juveniles of the same species that the possibility of aggression is just as possible as the frogs mature.
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You are the minority when it comes to mixing no-aggression. Most of us do not even like to place more than one female leuc with another female leuc, the same with pretty much all tincs (which azureus are) , no female-female stuff. Makes for aggression one may miss while at work or otherwise taken away from viewing the interaction. I've seen two leucs wrestle to the point there was not even a doubt they would not be occupying the same viv ever again. But, I guess if you know exactly what you are doing and are able to separate them at a seconds grab it is possible. If you are not a new frogger (like the OP) you may be able to keep the frogs alive.
Rich