I have a female belize slider which is going thru her first major shed but its been about 3 months. She provided with a 160 watt Mecury vapor buld make her basking spot 90-95 and she bask atleast a couple hours each day. I've taken several scute off which pretty much came off with the slightly touch. I don't take them off if there is resistance, some have air and water stuck under it. I don't want and shell infection to come about and just trying to find out why some turtles take long periods of time to shed scutes? I have caught wild turtles which I help shed and saw it was as many as 6 or more layers so it does happen in the wild too. but why is my question.
Xavier
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Leopard Geckos
1.1 Tangerine trempor albino
0.2 blizzards
1.1 Super Hypo Carrot tails (both Baldy)
1 amel corn snake
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle
0.1.0 Belize slider
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise
0.0.1 blackknobbed sawback
0.0.1 stripeneck musk
0.0.1 nothern DBT
