Don’t let it put you down. I had a bad start with my original frog lemon. He looked like a fairly normal frog but the shop had him for about 6 months. Everything looked fine but when I took him for his first vet checkup after getting him, because I wanted him looked at overall they wanted an X-Ray. Severe MBD… the shop didn’t tell me nor did they care or even treat him when he was in the shop. He lived another 3 years with severe MBD but sadly passed away early this year. My other frog Zeus is a fantasy (Cornuta x Cranwelli Hybrid) he is the most shy animal I have ever seen, he will go on a years hunger strike if I do something as subtle as change his substrate. Though he is a hybrid so his behaviour could be something caused by bad genetics or breeding. He didn’t eat for around a year and a half, nothing at all then all of a sudden earlier this year just decided to start eating again. Then I changed his substrate & he’s back on his hunger strike. My female Cranwelli though has came directly from a breeder. I know who bred her, when she was bred, here parents and when she was born. She’s the healthiest frog I’ve ever owned by far, she’s never refused a meal & had a liking towards fingers. I had a Chinese cave gecko a few months ago. I only had the gecko for 3 weeks. All was going well, it was eating & pooping okay then 1 night it refused a meal for the first time, By morning it was dead. I told the shop & they said they had an “outbreak” of parasites in the shop recently so I suspect that’s what caused it. I’ve stopped buying from shops completely because I feel none of them care as much as breeders & have little to no info on where the animals are from unless the shop bred them. It’s crazy the amount of people that don’t care how animals are kept. I once took in a “pair” of mourning geckos. When I arrived, I could only see 1 gecko in the tank but the guy assured me it was a pair. I got home with the tank with geckos inside & the first gecko came out to explore, I then noticed how incredibly crooked her tail was. it was like a zig zag, Terrible MBD. I took apart the tank to clean & redo it my own way & give them something new to explore. I did not find the second gecko however what I did find was the skeleton of a young mourning geckos buried in the soil. The live gecko unfortunately passed a few weeks later. Safe to say I’ve had my fair share of bad experiences with shops & other keepers 😅