Finally got some pixies

[willtilian]

yeah that one

[Malachi]

The one i have that i believe is a male, is larger lighter and has a wider head.

Also when they were all the same size it still seemed male.

[John911]

The one i have that i believe is a male, is larger lighter and has a wider head.

Also when they were all the same size it still seemed male.

You have 3 right? Have any comparison pics?


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[onedge30]

Wow, Jeff. those photos are great. They sure do look like a male and a female by the head structure compared to the body. It will be a GREAT insight to the species when we do find out the sex. Thank you for keeping us posted.

Jeff, what kind of filing system are you using for filing your photos for each specimen? And data figures?

[John911]

Here's a few headshots of ours




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[Malachi]

I will try and get a pic or clip tonight.

[John911]

Cool cool.

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[Kevin1]

i had the exact same theory but it was shot down

I'd like to know who shot it down...
This theory has been around for quite sometime. When I first joined the "fat frog" hobby a few years ago, this was common knowledge on a forum that no longer exists.
While it is a good way to detect males early on, Youngsters like these with smaller heads can and do also turn out to be male.
A long with the head size they also believe young males have longer legs in comparison, maybe you guys can put this to the test.
Though in case you all didn't know 90% of pyxies can be accurately sexed at 4 inches.

[John911]

Do these babies ever stop moving?

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[Jeff Kennedy]

Sorry folks. Been at a reptile expo all day long. Let me try to get to all of this...

Will: I am assuming by you saying that the theory was shot down, you have first hand knowledge? Such as you had a baby or juvenile with a wide head structure that you thought was a male and it turned out to be female? That baffles me because the writing is on the wall with ours. The majority that exhibits the wider heads also are larger then the narrow headed ones for the most part. I am still a believer in this theory so we will see where it goes.

Jeff: Thanks bud. As far as the filing system, we take a series of two photos every month for each Pyxie. We take a frontal shot and a profile shot. This go around (as we will likely do from here on out until we can sex 100%) we also opted for the overhead shots just to be able to compare the head structure of each. We have 10 more to do tomorrow afternoon and this months will be done. We will be posting a large update sometime later this week once all our data is compiled and the photos have been uploaded. I think that we are going to break it down in to two different posts. The first dealing with the diet and how that has influenced individual growth and the second dealing with our preliminary sexing. Should be interesting for all of you guys (and gals) to see what we have been up to this month. It has been a LOT of work and a TON of bugs. Anyways, I got off track there. All the photos are taken by Ella and go to individual files on her computer. We will do this every month so it will be nice to see how they all change each month. The data we record old school in notebooks then at the end of the month, Ella compiles a nice graph which will be uploaded to the blog. Just bear with us. It's a lot of data and tables and photos to pound out at the beginning of the month.

Kevin: We are on the same page. I always heard this is a foolproof method and I am going to continue believing it until I am proved otherwise.

John: Try photographing (30) every month!!! Good times let me tell ya!!

[Malachi]

Last week the one we believe is a male.




here he is today. He is a little puffed but so are the others. (sorry bad lighting in our apt at night) You can see his lighter but cant see the true color.



Female #2



female #1

[Eel Noob]

Malachi all your pyxies look male to me from those pictures. When viewed from above females usually have a rounder head while males will be more triangular.

[Malachi]

very possible, the only thing i am sure is that the first one is male. The other could be just slower at growing.