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I bought 4 D.Azureus the other day and put them in a 20 gallon tank with a 1 inch layer of vermiculite covered with Sphagnum
and live moss Its also planted with Pothos and has 2 caves and a water dish and it has an aqurium hood with a reptiglo 5.0
i keep the humidity above 75% and the temp around 78f.
and i feed them fruit flies and pin heads
When igot home from work yesterday there were only three in the tank and when i got home today there were only two!
If this keeps happening i will have none soon
There's no way that i can see for them to escape unless they are strong enough to open the lid and close it after they escape...lol
so i figure i either have 2 very hungry frogs or they are digging!
Ive read a few care sheets and thin paperback books but ive never heard of them digging
Has anybody heard of digging frogs? or has any tips for me,I would appreciate the advice

Don't sweat it. I've never heard of azureus digging, and they're not the best climbers either. So they're probably just hiding really well, maybe under a layer of the moss.

If you really want to find out....go ahead and move everything around until you find them. Otherwise, just keep it misted and feed as if you had four frogs.

Martin Fox
Hoboken Killer Frogs

My azureus have found many strange places to hide. I've found them under moss, wedged between driftwood and the terrarium wall, huddled up close to and almost under a rock, etc. I've even found one in a hole from a rotted out plant stem.

I wouldn't worry about them, as long as they are not froglets, you should be fine keeping them in a large planted tank. (If they're froglets though, I'd suggest putting them in a more simple set up so you can keep a good eye on them.)
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1.1.0 Sunburst Veileds (Oscar and Lizzie)
1.1.0 Azureus darts
2.3.0 Mantids
1.0.0 Albino Pacman (Grumpy)
2.0.0 White's Tree Frogs
0.2.0 Cats (Oreo and Doodle)

I wouldn't reccomend keeping them on vermiculite. They could ingest pieces of this - bad news. If you want an inert substrate, try gravel or LECA.
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AJ Cann, Leicester UK. Virtual Frogroom:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.cann/

My only losses have been escapees, (and one injury), so look around the room you have them in first. Even large frogs can escape in the most ingenious manner. The thumbnails are absolute masters of suicide by dehydration. If a fruit fly can get out, so can they. On the other hand, more shy individuals can and do hide efficiently. I have a blue D. auratus I named "Larry" after one of Garrison Keelor's skits on his brother who had lived in the basement for 15 years, that I've only seen six times in four years, mostly when I moved the frogs from their nursery, to a ten gallon and then to a 30 and had to dig Larry out of the substrate. In the meantime, I ceased to care a lot about Larry. I saw him yesterday in one of their upgraded tanks, hopping around and chasing flies like a normal frog. I said, "Hello, Larry, you look normal," and he vanished. I don't know how this frog has survived. In the past three years, he has obviously eaten, and isn't scrawney. He may need a frog psychiatrist. You do get overly shy indiviuals who can hide.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

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