Pixie tadpoles

[SethD]

Which houston area pet store did you get them from? If you got them from S&S or one of the more knowledgeable reptile stores there is a chance they are what they were sold as. Otherwise they probably are not.

[spec]

Which houston area pet store did you get them from? If you got them from S&S or one of the more knowledgeable reptile stores there is a chance they are what they were sold as. Otherwise they probably are not.

Pet's Place on scarsdale blvd in south houston.

[SethD]

I strongly suspect they aren't then, but it is faintly possible I suppose. I have never actually seen giant pixie tads for sale(and I usually have a decent handle on what is available) so I am making an educated guess that that particular shop doesn't know what it is taking about in this case. If it was S&S or Pets A Plenty making such a claim I would say the odds would be much better. Right now I would say the odds are probably somewhere between very slim and none that they are actually giant pixie tads.

[John]

They look like a ranid but I don't think they're Pyxicephalus. Not much time to market for tadpoles that metamorphose in less than 3 weeks.

[spec]

howm can i identify them?

[Kurt]

Well a guide field guide should help you ID American bullfrog tadpoles.

[John]

howm can i identify them?

If they aren't metamorphosing in 2 weeks then they're not Pyxicephalus.

[onedge30]

Spec,

Sorry to say, but those are some type of ranid tadpoles, not Pyxicephalus. Take a look at the care sheet. Two huge physical features that these do not have, are the eyes on top and a noticeable stripe down the center of the back.

I was really hoping that they were pixie bullfrogs.