Question: Can I house a Spanish Ribbed Newt with a Tilototriton Shanjing? ( Crocodile Newt )

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I own 1 Spanish Ribbed newt ( Desmond ) he is roughly 5.5" long and is established in a aquatic 20Gal tank. There is a small floating island - roughly5x5" but he mainly likes the water, so the tank is set up with that in mind 7.5" (height of water) . The temperature is kept at 72/74degrees C. He eats frozen and dried bloodworm's and the occasional earthworm.

I was wondering if it would be possible to keep a Shanjing Crocodile Newt with him. I don't know if the water would be considered to cold for a Shanjing or if either of the newts toxins would conflict with one another. I also don't know if the Shanjing would much prefer a more land based set up...If anyone has any information or tips it would be much appreciated. If this sounds like an outright bad idea please tell me!
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Shanjing are almost fully terrestrial. Bad idea.
 
Thanks for the feedback, I have done more research since posting and I deff wont be mixing these two!
 
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