White specks on White's tree frog

[Kurt]

Not that I am aware of. He probably had them all along. No biggie. I have two White's, one has white spots, the other doesn't.

[bshmerlie]

I've read somewhere that they can get more spots as they get older. Is that true?

[Kurt]

Don't really know for sure.

[Leefrogs]

I did searching for answers, when they start, size of spots realitive to age. Even went and got whites books, it's all a grey area, or a spotted area?!?! Because age of mine unknown I was thinking I could use spot size to get a guess. And mine aren't the white raised spots but white with darker circle, weird there's two kinds of markings.

[amisbeef]

Yes, they do grow spots. Some of mine did not have any and seemingly with age, they grew more. Some of mine do not have any at all, its just a physical characteristic like a big nose or brown hair, its most likely genetic and not thought to be environmental. The white spots you talk about with a black outline are the same on mine. My oldest started off with 2 spots, now with age he has about 7.

[Eric Walker]

whites spots are normal on alot of treefrogs, but yes they are normal in whites as well.. normally they do not get any bigger than say 1/4"

here is a picture of a group of frogs I lost about 3 years ago. They are
Rhacophorus Bipunctatus and they had spotting on 2 of the 3 that looked just like the one ones RETF's

do they look like this

[Sierra]

Eric Walker- no, mine has more, and they are much smaller. They are probably coming with age, or were there. They were rescue frogs so I really have no way to find the age, but they're large so I know they're at least a couple years old. Thanks for all the research guys! I know I read in a book that they can have some, and that the spots were sought after by hobbiests. The books I got didn't have much more than that on it.