Sad, I'm glad u saved him though! Pet stores like that should not get these animals if these don't know anything about them.
In fact I just rescued two baby red eyes (the size of a penny) from a local pet store that I didn't even know carried reptiles and amphibians until now.
It was sad, I went there looking for a water pump and found that this store was now selling reptiles, they are know for there huge supply of fish n I never was so disappointed in them until this past Monday. These poor babies were in a small critter carrier, the woman said there were 3, I took a closer look and yes there were 3, one was sleeping on the wall and looked to be the more healthy, the other was up roaming around in the middle of the day (not a good sign) and the other poor lil guy was dead still in the tank
I could feel that they were keeping them warm enough, but these poor lil guys had absolutely no humidity, they had a water dish and bone dry moss, lil guys were being sucked dry from this desert like heat and just dying slowly so I had to try and save them, I would have felt horrible just buying the healthy looking one and leaving the other just to die. So I did something that I've never done before and I asked the woman if I could get the both of them for a discounted price and she agreed thankfully! She then made me even more concerned when she was running around looking for something to put them in... She came back with a small dusty cardboard box, threw some gross dried up moss in it and my two new lil friends, I was so horrified.
I have two semi adult red eyes already that I had purchased in may from twin cities reptiles in st. Paul, mn... Which I am very happy how they handled there animals. They used small cleaned Tupperware containers w hole in top to send ur new pets home with u and they made u sign a paper saying you know and have to means to properly take care of them... This was not the case at all at Forest Lake Pets in forest lake, mn... I would recommend no one purchase or sell any reptiles to that store, they know nothing about the care that is needed and the lady openly admitted to me that she knew nothing about the frogs I purchased, nothing about where they came from or how to care for them.
As for my two new lil guys, I truly do feel I saved them from death and they seem to be doing much better, last night the healthier of the two ate the other one is now sleeping during the day too, I believe all they needed was the correct environment (heat AND Humidity) and now they can get a fair start at a nice life.
I would post pics of them and there progress, but I am using an iPad haha.. I do have pics on my fb profile tho, I just upload from my cell phone. So if there's a way I can upload pics onto here from my phone then that would be cool.