Pixie tadpoles

[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.

[John911]

Spec,

I was really hoping that they were pixie bullfrogs.

x2. I hope to get one myself eventually and I know I am going to end up paying some good money for one.

[John]

those are some type of ranid tadpoles, not Pyxicephalus.

You need to get your terms straight. Pyxicephalus are Ranids (family Ranidae). You are thinking of the genus Rana, not the family Ranidae.

Two huge physical features that these do not have, are the eyes on top and a noticeable stripe down the center of the back.

They only get those when they finish growing their back legs. Until then they are not marked in that way.