Opinions Please

[gullywhippet]

hi all just wondered what your opinions are on the sex of my bully, he/she has never made a sound,cheers

[GRABibus]

Bully is a beautiful male !

[SCF]

Bully is a beautiful male !

Agreed!

[GrifTheGreat]

Agree with GRABibus and SCF. Definitely male.

[Dabrute]

Nice looking frog!

[stuartrobertson]

Without question a MALE! I have never heard of a 7" female! He should have made noise by now though! How old is he?

[gullywhippet]

ive had him for just over 6 months and this is him the day i got him he was about 3 inch definately not made a sound

[GrifTheGreat]

ive had him for just over 6 months and this is him the day i got him he was about 3 inch definately not made a sound

He just hasn't had the right conditions to call. Mine began calling at 4" and now only calls occationally. It is a very low deep call so if he is calling you could easily miss hearing it when you are asleep.

Listen here. http://www.frogforum.net/resources/a...ersus_call.swf

[gullywhippet]

I've heard male bullfrogs calling my friend has several but this guy hasn't yet I moved his viv into my sons bedroom a while ago for this very reason cuz my son has sleeping issues and the slightest noise wakes him up,maybe the conditions are the issue I'm about to move him into a bigger viv with a much bigger filtered pool so maybe that might make him pipe up,thanks for the comments

[Eridu Serpent]

I know people will disagree but I think it is female, I have been studying their shapes and found that females have a rounded bottom.
males tend to have a slightly protruding spine bone and pointy bottom.
Also I think the head to body ratio is too small.
I think your bully is a very large female.

Sorry to disagree with others!

[GrifTheGreat]

I know people will disagree but I think it is female, I have been studying their shapes and found that females have a rounded bottom.
males tend to have a slightly protruding spine bone and pointy bottom.
Also I think the head to body ratio is too small.
I think your bully is a very large female.

Sorry to disagree with others!

Females never have a head this large. Also my male has a somewhat round bottom and he is 100% male.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

I am no expert but does this species have nuptial pads on the males?

[Eridu Serpent]

I am no expert but does this species have nuptial pads on the males?

Yes they do

[Lija]

I'll tell you that i'm confused on that particular one since you all go with a male and I kinda wanna say looks femalish to me he/she looks very much like mine now, but she used to be a very confusing one too lol
but it is actually closer to 6" not 7", still for a 8 month female to be that big is not likely unless you feed her super secret formula like Grif lol, so i gotta go with male

Louis - they have them during breeding season.

[Eridu Serpent]

I still think female, there can be exceptions to the rule.
My friend has a large female, seen a few of them before.
I still think EVERY one should post photos of the frogs butts lol from the side and above so we can do a scientific study!

[GrifTheGreat]

On the topic of breeding season. During breeding season there are two things that appear on the male. 1 is the Nuptial Pads used for gripping the female and 2 the odontoids extend in length so that they can fight rival males.

A 7" female is a big NO! Females don't get that big. 5" to 5.5" and 6" is really pushing it. Not saying that it doesn't happen, but highly unlikely.

Oh and Lija there is no Super Secret Growth Formula.

[GrifTheGreat]

I still think female, there can be exceptions to the rule.
My friend has a large female, seen a few of them before.
I still think EVERY one should post photos of the frogs butts lol from the side and above so we can do a scientific study!

Lol! We can do that, but it would take so many more than the amount of males and females on this forum to accurately perform a proper Scientific study. After all you said that mine was a female by judging this tale bone theory and it turned out to be male.

[Lija]

Oh and Lija there is no Super Secret Growth Formula.

aha, right, right lol politely agree lol oh and mine now is a bit over 5", grew some in last month, but she eats like a pig lately

Eridu, we can totally do it, not really for science, cos it is not really possible over internet and by the pic, but we can do it for fun.

here is my girl some time ago (this spring), her butt looks kinda pointy.

[Eridu Serpent]

aha, right, right lol politely agree lol oh and mine now is a bit over 5", grew some in last month, but she eats like a pig lately

Eridu, we can totally do it, not really for science, cos it is not really possible over internet and by the pic, but we can do it for fun.

here is my girl some time ago (this spring), her butt looks kinda pointy.

No that is not what I mean...when I say pointy I mean the spine, the tail end.
The bone seems to be more visible in a males.

[GrifTheGreat]

Need to start a new thread for this otherwise it will be hijacking this thread.