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Paludarium Questions/ Water Skink

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Hi all, I am in the process of setting up a paludarium. I have a large 150g aquarium that I plan on adding some vertical height to via a custom made mdf box with screen top and lexan front as a "canopy" area. I am looking for it to possibly house a sulawesi water skink or 2 for the land portion of it. That would connect to a sloped bank deep water side with some clouded archer fish which should be native to the same geographical area. I was just wondering if they are likely to co-exist together, or if one would be dangerous to the other. I was also curious if there was any option for an arboreal frog that may live up in the canopy section that would not bother the water skink and vice versa. It has been tough finding info as the water skink seems to be relatively rare in the hobby.
 
I'd be very hesitant to house a WC skink with any frog, for fear of pathogen transmission; animals from different taxa and different geographic areas don't deal well with novel pathogens. Keeping species in separate enclosures is always a better care protocol.

I'd also consider some other material than MDF for any sort of humid enclosure, since even if fully sealed the slightest permeability in the coating will allow water into the MDF and destroy it. Sheet PVC would be a far better material.
 
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