Well, the quick answer is both frogs and turtles are carnivores but the turtles have sharper teeth.
I wouldn't do it. Even baby Red Ear turtles (most common in petshops) hunt and eat fish. They litterally tear the fish apart to eat it. I imagine by colorful frogs you mean Poison Dart Frogs? They're quite small in size and your turtles will quickly outgrow them. They'll either catch and eat the frogs or there'll be near misses and your frogs will be missing limbs.
PDF's can't hurt turtles and will probably be stressed by them. The frogs will always stay away and hide.
Even if the above was the only reason it might still be possible to do frogs & turtles for someone who already had a lot of experience with both speciies. What makes it impossible is that thier habitat's are completely different. Turtles need a large aquatic area and need a basking light. Turtles are aquatic and need to swallow thier food under water. Because they spend a lot of time underwater they tend to get a kind of translucent white fungus on thier skin. To remedy this they bask in the heat and light from the lightsource in thier enclosure. So they need that light to be healthy.
The problem is the light dries the air in the enclosure (in your case aquarium) and reduces the humidity level. Frogs breath through thier skin so they need a lot of humidity. PDF's need lots of plants to hide and climb on and those plants need lots of humidity also. One last thing, PDF's are not aquatic they're terrestrial and can drown in water that would be needed to accomodate a turtle.
These types of species don't match at all.
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