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Here is my turtle. I was wondering if how it's shell becomes flat at the bottom is normal.
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2 Taricha granulosa
1 male Terrapane carolina carolina
10 gal. tropical fish tank.

Sorry. here's the pic

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2 Taricha granulosa
1 male Terrapane carolina carolina
10 gal. tropical fish tank.

The shell flares out at the back because of a lack of calcium. A friend of mine has a North Carolina wild-caught eastern, and the back of his shell is flared out. One of mine from Tennessee has flaring going on too.

So i guess there's nothing i can do to fix the shape of his shell now. So should i just provide the right vitamins and minerals or is there something i should do for treatment?
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2 Taricha granulosa
1 male Terrapane carolina carolina
10 gal. tropical fish tank.

That looks pretty normal for a young-ish turtle.

Really? I'm not sure of his age though. I know he's an adult. Would it be normal for an adult? Or is this just metabolic bone disease?
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2 Taricha granulosa
1 male Terrapane carolina carolina
10 gal. tropical fish tank.

I think it might be youngish because the flaring does not tend to be as pronounced in the obviously older male Easterns that I encounter.

He's fine.

Looks pretty normal we have 5 or 6 rescues from a 20 mile radius of us with wide flares like that on the bottom of the shell. Just a DNA make up I would think.

Maybe they are advanced and don't like their feet getting wet in the rain.LOL

I have an adult male eastern. His shell looks just like that. I don't know if he suffered from a lack of anything. I got him a few years ago.

p.s. congrats on getting a pic posted! lol!
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0.1.0 ornate box turtle
1.0.0 eastern box turtle
1.0.0 Yellow belly slider
0.1.0 Red belly cooter
0.1.0 Australian shepard
1.11.0 chickens
1.0.0 Dutch(rabbit)
3.2.0 children (do I still count the married ones?)
1.0.0 husband

Looks like normal bell shape that a lot of adult males have to me. I have seen that in adult males of all 3 main sub species personally, I don't think there is any lack of calcium or any thing to be concerned with from that pic.
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Jeff Benfer

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That's a perfectly normal looking male Eastern boxie shell. Males tend to have some degree of flare like that, females not so much. Here are a couple pictures of my young male.

I agree. It's perfectly normal. It is very rare to find wild caught turtles with dietary deficiencies. I have seen some with abnormalities, but it is usually associated with spinal birth defects or trauma.

Different populations and even individuals within a population can have very different shell shapes. Your turtle falls well within the normal variations.

how do you get pix in your post w/o it saying that flag on it (sorry forgot what the flag is).
Do you just pull one into the frame?
I think I will try that right now.NanisleepBIG.JPG
nope that did n't do it.
???
thanks/p
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Patsy

I opened a free account at photobucket.com and upload my photos to that account, then just copy the IMG code at the bottom of the photo and paste it into the post.

>>I opened a free account at photobucket.com and upload my photos to that account, then just copy the IMG code at the bottom of the photo and paste it into the post.
thanks for trying. When my son gets here, (techie kid) I will show him and ask him to show me...
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Patsy

Click the photos tab on top of the page. Upload the pic. Then when you post, you just highlight the pic you want to post.
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0.1.0 ornate box turtle
1.0.0 eastern box turtle
1.0.0 Yellow belly slider
0.1.0 Red belly cooter
0.1.0 Australian shepard
1.11.0 chickens
1.0.0 Dutch(rabbit)
3.2.0 children (do I still count the married ones?)
1.0.0 husband