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Here they are

A view of the stream

I love the stream idea. Is this a genuine half bark wood, or artificial? It's very nice, either way.

Since the plants in your tank aren't really established yet, I have a couple of suggestions for the azureus. I don't see a hide for the frog, and at this stage, everything appears to be in the open, even without leaf litter. I would suggest giving him a hut of some sort for retiring.

Then, if you plant to get this frog a mate, you may need a plant with wide, sturdy leaves for laying eggs and breeding activity. Something that will support both of them at once. The problem with plants with wide, sturdy leaves, is they are usually over-enthusiastic for a small vivarium. But you can trim them back, as I do mine in my own azureus habitat.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue
D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
D. imitator
D. leucomelas
D. pumilio Bastimentos
D. fantasticus
P. terribilis mint and organe
D. reticulatus
D. castaneoticus
D. azureus
P vittatus
P. lugubris

There are recesses in the slate that they are using as hide spots, but I will look into making some more, I see your point. The stream is a cork curl, real wood. I can't take full credit for it, I got the idea off of Blackjungle.com
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2 D. azureus
1.1 A. cacatuoides
1 C. cinctus
1.0 F. catus

And I'm going to steal the idea from you!! I buy cork by the bulk for backgrounds and water falls over the rough part, and never once thought of this. I have a narrow, curling round of it that will be really fun to work with. It supports all kinds of other growth as well, and regularly "sprouts" some interesting little ferns, apparently from spores in the bark. Do you get much wicking into the substrate? Not that this is a big deal if you have good drainage, and the water can be replaced if lost, but I'm just curious.

Are your azureus a mated pair, or are they too young to tell yet? They should be happy with their slate "caves."

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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue
D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
D. imitator
D. leucomelas
D. pumilio Bastimentos
D. fantasticus
P. terribilis mint and organe
D. reticulatus
D. castaneoticus
D. azureus
P vittatus
P. lugubris

There aren't problems I see with wicking into the substrate from the cork. I thought the stream was pretty cool too, you always think of waterfalls, but not so often streams! The pair is too young to tell if they are mated or not.
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2 D. azureus
1.1 A. cacatuoides
1 C. cinctus
1.0 F. catus

I was just thinking about you "wicking" comment on the stream, which I didn't quite understand what you meant, but I think you did...the stream is fed by a powerhead buried behind the pool of water, the hose goes underneath the substrate to the top of the stream where the slate is and this recycles the water. I have to top it off every other day because of evaporation. Heres a picture, you can see the tube coming out from underneath the slate.

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2 D. azureus
1.1 A. cacatuoides
1 C. cinctus
1.0 F. catus

That's very nicely done. What I meant by "wicking" is the water creeping up and over the edges of a stream by capillary action. This happens when I use Winterstone to build waterways, or when the edges get colonized by mosses like Java.

When your juveniles get a bit older, take some pictures of their toe pads up close if you can and let us help guess what you have. I love to do this. I'm also wrong 50% of the time.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue
D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
D. imitator
D. leucomelas
D. pumilio Bastimentos
D. fantasticus
P. terribilis mint and organe
D. reticulatus
D. castaneoticus
D. azureus
P vittatus
P. lugubris