White specks on White's tree frog

[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.

[Kisa]

I had the same thing with my White's.

When I bought him at Petsmart (never EVER going back there for live animals...>>) he was brown and had no spots. A few weeks after I brought him home he began to turn a little green and that's when the spots showed up, he only has them visibly when he's green, otherwise I think his belly is too white while he's more brown.

It's totally normal, as long as they aren't raised white bumps or anything like in that picture, you should have nothing to worry about.

Good for you for rescuing frogs, I wish I could do more for the little guys at petsmart and petco, but I can't buy up all the frogs can I?

[amisbeef]

The white spots which are more like bumps aren't normal in Litoria caerula at all and if found should be cause for concern, but these bumped white spots are completely normal in Agalychnis callidryas and the species sometimes known as Rhacophorus bipunctatus

[Sierra]

Yeah, the lady that brought them in couldn't get the humidity right in their house, so the petstore wasn't very prepared for them. They were only there two days because I went there and bought them. I know what you mean about wanting to buy them all to save them! One day :P haha. I wish people could be more informed about their care.
The spots are really tiny, smaller than the tip of a ballpoint pen. He sure does eat though!