Help sex my new pixie!

[NicholasJeung]

I recently got my second pixie frog, my first was a female and had died a year after i got her as a one inch froglet from the whole chytrid thing a few years back, and i was 12 and listened to everything i heard on youtube. So here is my new guy/gal, i was told it was a male at the store but want some opinions from some people who actually own these beautiful creatures!

[Mentat]

I'm a begineer like you, so please wait until one of the experienced keepers here (Eel Noob, Jimifrog, etc.) gives you their opinion. Your frog appears a male to me due to size of head in relation to body. How big is it now?

[NicholasJeung]

Thanks for filling me in on who's the more experienced keepers, and I hope you are right he's about 3.5 svl which I know I should wait till 4 inches but I figure mine as well get some options I will update in a few weeks to see if he's grown

[Bruce]

It's still too young to tell, but of I had to guess now I would say male. That head looks pretty wide. But like I said, a bit too young to tell for sure.

[Eel Noob]

From the first picture I'm going with female. At 3.5" if it was male it should have a more well define head when viewed from above.

Here's Bruce a few months back. Young males will have what I called a blocky triangular head.


But who knows some males are late developers so do post a few more pix if you can.

[GRABibus]

Honestly, difficult to sex it now. Too young according to me.
Take a look at its throad color, and if it goes more and more to yellow, then it's a male for sure.

[NicholasJeung]

hopefully your right and its a male here is another pic from abovie at a different angle if this may help you

[GRABibus]

Too young to conclude.

[Eel Noob]

Honestly, difficult to sex it now. Too young according to me.
Take a look at its throad color, and if it goes more and more to yellow, then it's a male for sure.

That's not reliable way to sex these frogs. Some males will have no colors on their underside and than I have seen females with more colors than most males.

hopefully your right and its a male here is another pic from abovie at a different angle if this may help you

Sticking with female on this one.

[Jimifrog]

From the first picture I'm going with female. At 3.5" if it was male it should have a more well define head when viewed from above.

Here's Bruce a few months back. Young males will have what I called a blocky triangular head.


But who knows some males are late developers so do post a few more pix if you can.

I agree with Eel Noob. For a 3.5 inch pixie, it looks like it's heading to more of the blobby female look than a male.