What are you feeding them? Before this, it was mostly about your tank and the set-up, which sounded good. It was my fault for not asking more specific questions before giving advice. Dart frogs will eat only live food such as active fruit flies, which we usually culture, then dust with vitamins and calcium/D3 supplements. The food has to be alive and moving, or they won't eat it. There are other options, but fruit flies are usually the basic supplement because they are easy to culture. I just never thought about this when you posted your first questions. I assumed a basic knowledge about the temperatures, humidity and general feeding/nutrition. And you probably have all of this right, but we still need to get more details about exactly what you are feeding them before giving any clues about how to solve it. Usually, tinctorius are pigs, and not shy, or at least, not for long. You have mixed two unsexed color varieties of a territorial species of them in a relatively small tank, but at this point, this is probably not the problem with them not eating. It may be a problem later, depending upon whether you have two females, but that's another issue that may evolve later. I think we need some more exacting detail about what you are doing now, and perhaps more information about the set-up, such as what temperatures and humidity are being maintained--just generally. I know how you set it up in the first place sounded good, so you are probably O.K. there. No one can give advice without a lot more detail about how and what you are feeding them.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

Dendrobates: auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, tinctorius azureus, leucomelas. Phyllobates: vittatus, terribilis, lugubris. Epipedobates: anthonyi tricolor pasaje. Ranitomeya fantastica, imitator, reticulata. Adelphobates castaneoticus, galactonotus. Oophagia pumilio Bastimentos. (updated systematic nomenclature)

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