How To Sex White's Treefrogs

[ladybird]

Originally Posted by andaroo

The tanks lights went off and a few minutes later I heard a really loud bbRAAAWK noise, raspy and off key lol so I guess that was Chips and she is female like I guessed all along!
I saw Fish sat on the floor of the tank and i turned on my tower fan near the tank and he started croaking with his throat inflated about 6 times. So he is a male like I guessed all along! How lucky to have picked 1 of each when they were little babies!

Edit: I just played some croaking videos on youtube and turned up the speakers and i saw fish croaking back on the leaves at the top of the tank, while chips was croaking back but only once at a time and crawling around the side of the glass like crazy. I took a closer look and saw the white spots on their face and realised it was CHIPS on the leaves croaking and fish was the one crawling around! Ugh so confused! I'm sure i've seen them both do it now so I guess I have 2 males!

Got any pics of them? From the side? Do they have no brown mark on the thumb?

[Mbar]

Spot the males

[ladybird]

Haha yes look at those dark throats! I've also noticed that males don't seem to get as fat as females do. Females are much more greedy, in general. That pic shows it nicely as well

[Weenoff]

To the post above, I have no idea what the hell you're on about, or where that fits into this thread so I'm just gonna go with:

Tell your dad he's a bit too old for those kind of games..

[aidney]

does anyone have any white tree frogs out there for sale looking for about 5cm in size.thanks

[Bobby_kidd@hotmail.com]

Anyone be up for trying to determine the sex of mine if i post pics up?

[mrblue2008]

Originally Posted by Bobby_kidd@hotmail.com

Anyone be up for trying to determine the sex of mine if i post pics up?

go on then we'll have ago........

[andaroo]

pff i've tried this method on mine every so often and i still dont have a clue! But i think i have 1 of each because both genders croak but males call for a while and females do a couple of raspy croaks back kinda like she's saying i'm here come get me boys!

[violawench]

That's really handy (no pun intended), thanks cause I just bought one and have no idea of it's sex so we called it Oh Froggy One, but now I'll have to check it out, I reckon its female cause although its only little, theres no throat sac when it calls. I think the name will stick though

[Uromastyxman]

Originally Posted by ladybird

Both males and females call, but only males call by inflating the throat sac. Size isn't an accurate measure either until the frogs are fully grown. Dark throats are another red herring, I have a female with a dark throat, and a male with a light throat, so that's nothing to go by.
I find the most accurate way to tell a young frog's sex is to look at the front feet for nuptial pads. They appear roughly the same time as the males start to call frequently, which is when they are about 2" (5cm) snout to vent length. To be sure, I'd leave it until they are 2.5" (6cm) SNV.
So, this is how you do it. The nuptial pad is a brown patch on the inside of the thumb of the male, which is totally absent from females. It's present all year round, though it's darker during the breeding season.



First of all, here is my big female

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This is what her thumb looks like, no nuptial pad

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Now here is a male, you can already tell because his throat sac is inflated

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Here is his thumb

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See the brown area at the base of his thumb? That tells us he is definately a male.

Now, here's a few more examples. Try to guess whether it's a male or female



Frog #3

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Thumb shot

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Frog #4

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Frog #5

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Incase you couldn't tell, frog #3 was female and frogs #4 and #5 were males


By the way, none of these frogs are fully mature, except maybe the first one there, but as you can see you can tell well before breeding age what sex your White's treefrog is.

Thank you very much and I hope this guide helped you

Hey ladybird, thank you for that it was very useful and it has made me want whites again.
Andy