Whites tree frog help

[josh]

Hello everyone, so the story goes, I have a whites tree frog named Henry. Now I've had him for a few years and he croaks about every night. This is how I know he is a boy. A few weeks ago I got a girl whites. I was pretty sure she was a girl because of her massive size. She also has smaller ears and smaller thumbs. These are all characteristics of a girl tree frog. Henry has been croaking just like normal ever since I got her. He usually croaks if he hears a sound, or just randomly. But tonight was very different. He was on a log and started croaking on his own. But then my girl whites started croaking in response to him. This went on for about 15 seconds. I was very confused because I didn't think that girls croak at all. I've never heard a peep from her until tonight. I read that sometimes girls will croak as mating response to males. Is this what happened? Or do I have another male that has physical characteristics of a girl?

[Frogger00]

Hello everyone, so the story goes, I have a whites tree frog named Henry. Now I've had him for a few years and he croaks about every night. This is how I know he is a boy. A few weeks ago I got a girl whites. I was pretty sure she was a girl because of her massive size. She also has smaller ears and smaller thumbs. These are all characteristics of a girl tree frog. Henry has been croaking just like normal ever since I got her. He usually croaks if he hears a sound, or just randomly. But tonight was very different. He was on a log and started croaking on his own. But then my girl whites started croaking in response to him. This went on for about 15 seconds. I was very confused because I didn't think that girls croak at all. I've never heard a peep from her until tonight. I read that sometimes girls will croak as mating response to males. Is this what happened? Or do I have another male that has physical characteristics of a girl?

Did the girl have a big throat?


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[josh]

[QUOTE=Frogger00;252533]Did the girl have a big throat?


I didn't see her when she was croaking

[josh]

I didn't see her when she was croaking because the lights were out

[Frogger00]

I didn't see her when she was croaking because the lights were out

Try to catch it next time, if the throat wasn't puffy then it was most likely a female l if the throat was big, then you may have another male


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[josh]

Ok, thanks you!!

[Snappi13]

The female whites tree frogs will call back to a male and in my expierence will call kinda randomly for very short spurts of time unlike the makes who tend to call for a minute or so. also the males will have the croaks back to back. My females only call for one or two croaks at a time. Look for the brown nuputal spots on the inner top/ crease area of there thumbs. Out of mating season the spots are lighter but usually visible on the males as long as there sound an 1 1/2" from nose to vent. The females have no spot at all and when full grown are usually larger than the males.

[josh]

Thank you so much! That really helped! I'm a little confused about the last thing you said about their thumbs though. And the spots things.

[Snappi13]

Both theses frogs have those brown nuptial pads and Both are male. These frogs are not mine I copied the picture
from a different forum

[Frogger00]

Just wanted to add that the thumb pads are not always darkened like in the pic, but still visible


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[irThumper]

Here are some nuptial pads (thumb pads) that are pretty dark by comparison