Hello,

I have 5 little Green froggies that are about an inch or so long. I know you can tell the difference between the male and female frogs by looking at the ear but I was sort of wondering if anybody could please tell me how long it approximately takes before any of the young males get the big ears? Right now all of my frogs look like girls and I was sort of hoping for at least one of the little froggies to be a boy frog. I really wasn't able to find any sort of answer by searching Google and thought that someone who has raised them from tadpoles might know the answer.

Thanks,
Jennifer

Baby green frogs are just darling! At an inch long, you can't sex them yet. They have to be at least twice as big. Because I have so many tadpoles, small green frogs, and a good amount of adults, I couldn't tell you for sure how long an individual frog takes to mature because I can't tell them apart. I do know that when I started my pond in 1997 with green frog tadpoles (that turned into froglets that year), those resultant frogs were breeding (and sexable) by the next year. I would guess it takes about six months post morph (not including winter when they don't grow much) to easily sex one. If you have five of them, it's very likely that you have a male. Males seem more common in my ponds. Or maybe it's just that they don't hide as much.

I totally agree! They are very darling. Thank you very much for your reply. Although, after reading your reply, maybe I should start planning how I will be dealing with 9 million tadpoles within the next few years LOL!

Jennifer

I've never had 9 million. When I clean out my 153 gallon each year in late March, I usually hand pick out around 100-300 of them to set aside while cleaning. My 1800 gallon pond has many fewer as the large fish in there eat most frog eggs and tadpoles. The green frogs are smart though and don't usually put eggs in that pond. They put eggs in the tub ponds so I have to remove the tadpoles in the late fall to the 153 gallon pond before those smaller ponds freeze.

Froggie update......

Right now it looks like Olive is going to be a boy. In comparison with the other little frogs, his ears are starting to look bigger and kind of donutish (with a ring around the outside?). Fern may also be a future boy. Both of them are starting to croak and their necks really pouff out when they get going. They can be LOUD already! I can't imagine what they will sound like when it's breeding season. Funnily enough, the one named Crocus seems to be a girl. So far all of them are different colors. Olive was green, then changed to almost black, then is back to dark olive green. One is light golden tan with a green head and the other one is dark brown with green lips. If they don't change too much I may be able to ID them in the spring.

Sadly, two of the other little ones are missing and one of the bigger girl frogs is missing. There is a small chance that they could still be hiding in the rocks and are harder to spot but probably not after a few weeks. If they left, I hope they make it back to the big lake (a few blocks away) or to another backyard pond. I really think the babies would have been too big to get eaten by another frog, but we do get lots of skunks and raccoons (which already ate one of the big goldfish from the calf tub on the patio). :(

Oh, and Pansy is a boy too and Iris is A.K.A. "FROGZILLA" :P

It sounds like you've got quite a collection of frogs! Females may squeak when frightened but otherwise don't make noise. If you've got loud frogs, they're males. It sounds like you may have a bunch of them, in which case, they may start tusseling with each other. Males will grab arms and push each other to determine who is king!