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Posted by: zovick at Sat Nov 17 10:03:34 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by zovick ] If you are talking about the white areas in between the scutes, they appear to be normal areas of new growth, not shell rot. The new shell growth has a very thin layer of translucent cells on it. gradually these wear away leaving a new shiny normal shell area. If you wash the tortoise off and gently brush the white areas, you will see nice clean normal shell colored growth underneath. Shell rot would go through the entire colored outer layer to the underlying bone and would be much harder to remove. When shell rot is removed, a crater is left which is whitish and often even bleeds, not what normal shell would do. | ||
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