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I am setting up a 20 gal long tank for darts. I was thinking of 4 D. Azures.
Is this too many for that tank?

Azureus are normally not kept in groups, the females fight, like Tincs. If there is a water feature there is a chance of drowning. I have 2 Azureus in a 29gal, and they are very cool. I am hoping they are not both female but will have to wait a bit longer to find out.
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Kyle
www.kylesphotos.com
D. leucomelas
D. azureus

I have 4 azureus in a 46 gallon bowfront. I was told that with this much room 2 females would be fine. If it turns out I have 3 I will probably ending up trading them. But as of now they are only juveniles I can't tell!
Mark
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my tanks and frogs
.7 Green and Black Costa Rican D. Auratus
.4 D. Azureus

That makes sense to me at least, but hey i'm not expert, just repeating what I have read more than a few places. I'm sure if he envrionment was right and big enough it would be ok, i'd ask a breeder before hand though.
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Kyle
www.kylesphotos.com
D. leucomelas
D. azureus

Thats exactly what I did. I first asked here how many people said and got mixed results, then on the chat and frognet. On the day I got the frogs at frogday I asked the breeders tincs.com as well as Tor Linbo and they said 4 would be good. Ask who ever the breeder is you're planning to get them from along with as many other people you can.
mark
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my tanks and frogs
.7 Green and Black Costa Rican D. Auratus
.4 D. Azureus

They usually say 1 frog per 5 gallons, so I guess that would be perfect. I keep my 2 D. tinctorious in a 10 gallon and it works fine. If possible, (probably not) try to get only 1 male so you don't have territorial rivalry. But its OK if you have more than 1, they won't kill eachother or anything, just wrestle.

From what I have read that is not true. The females are the ones that fight and a 2 male to 1 female is a good thing to have. Females can fight to the death, in the Tincs, and Azureus.
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Kyle
www.kylesphotos.com
D. leucomelas
D. azureus

Thanks for letting me know. I was planning on buying 4 unsexed frogletts from Saurian Enterprises in about two months. My second choice is 4
D. leucomelas. What do you think about this in my 20L? I plan on keeping the frogletts on paper towels with some pothos cuttings in a 8" round
deli cup for the first two months and just providing a milk bottle cap for water. After they grow up a bit I will put them in the 20L (hopefully it will
be ready when they are). I got this set up off of Patrick's website. Any thing else I should think about? Also, will baby frogs eat full size fruit flys or
will there be some babies in a culture. Let me know, Jacob.

Patrick is great, and has great frogs. That is were I got my Azureus and let me tell you they are awesome. You can see pictures on my site below. A 20L would be fine, I would talk to Patrick if I were you about getting 4. You may need to split them up as they get older.

I kept mine in a small critter keeper with the back and sides covered and the top covered with suran wrap for about a month.

I also have Leucs and they are also very nice. I got them first to get started after a ton of people said they were great to start with. They are a little cheaper, and can be great to start out with.

The Leucs and Azureus can both eat the small FFs at least at an age when most people would ship them to you. I feed mine a mixture of both now, but fed them the smaller for the first few months.

Here are a few sites to look at for some good info:
http://www.doylesdartden.com/
http://www.tincs.com/
http://www.frognet.org/

Check em out, and do searches here and on frognet for anything you can think of, most of it has already been talked about.

Good luck,
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Kyle
www.kylesphotos.com
D. leucomelas
D. azureus

I don't know about azureus froglet diet, but the four leukomelas froglets (from Patrick) immediately began lapping up the smaller species of fruit flies, as well as the springtails. Mine are very active, so their nursery is a 2 gallon critter keeper with a moss floor over a layer of wet cocoanut chunks and charcoal with a few sprigs of curly ivy and some shallow covered water dishes. I put a layer of Saran wrap with one small hole over the top just under the vented lid to preserve humidity. (Flies can be funneled through the hole without taking the whole lid off.) The moss can be sprayed down for cleaning and any excess water pulled out of a small hole to the sub in one corner with a syringe attached to a length of aquarium air tubing. Overall, I like this arrangement better than the paper towels. However, with shy frogs, such as the blue auratus froglets, I had some trouble with them burrowing under the moss so they were hard to keep track of. The leuks don't even try to do this. However, this time the moss is one single sheet and packed tightly on the edges, wheras the first time, it had been placed in pieces the frogs could get between and under. I used the paper towels with the tiny imitators, as well as the galacs when they first arrived and found that changing the towels was awkward while trying to keep the active little babies from hopping out, or even climbing my arm, so went back to a tighter version of the moss.
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Patty
Lost River, Idaho

D. auratus blue
D. galactonotus
D. imitator
D. leukomelas
D. pumilio Bastimentos (soon)