Hi Michelle,

I'm so sorry that you and the little ones have to deal with this. I wanted to put it out there, perhaps this will help you.

I worked at Petco doing animal care for a little over a year. My store had White's for sale, and the little guys always died after several months. The enclosure they were kept in was all wrong, and the breeders were just god awful. They looked healthy initially, but over the course of weeks and months, they would lose appetite, and wither away. Despite bringing this up to management, and the district higher ups, nothing was done about it, because they obviously knew much more than some associate. :/

White's tree frogs at Petco are notorious for coming from mass breeders, often with the little guys riddled with bacteria they succumb to over time. The store would not let me take these frogs or put them aside for recovery, and they were not worth the company's money in terms of cultures, etc. at a reptile vet, and they didn't care whether these frogs lived or died. Just scanned 'em out when they died and reordered more when they were gone.

Long story short, I scanned out four remaining frogs as dead and snuck them out of the store with an associate manager approval. Thanks to Dr. Frye and a good round of anti-biotics and treatment, I now have two, fat little plumper White's who pulled through, and who are as green and happy as can be. I'm not diagnosing them, but there's a good chance that he may need anti-biotics. So many White's are kept together and often, employees don't keep up with the waste and bacteria they accumulate.

Orestes, the smaller white's of the two, had the same symptoms of shedding constantly and loss of appetite with extreme lethargy. It was a month long ordeal, but he made it and now he has some really weird habits to show for it, haha.

I apologize for the long ramble, but your story brought it all back and needless to say I quit and refuse to shop there. Best of luck to you and the little guys, I hope they make a full and swift recovery.