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Before my turtle started shedding he had what looked like scratches on his shell so I said O.K they will come off when he sheds but when he shed it instead made white spots that where larger than the scratches. I have read on another forum of another person with a yellow bellied which is what mine is or is mine a red bellied? I don't remember. I'll post a pic and you tell me, but whatever the spots on the others when they took it to a vet where calcium deficency could that be what mine has, and please don't tell me to take it to a vet as I will either take care of it myself in the next week or take in to a vet in the next week depending if I know how to fix it or not. But is this what it is? And even if it is or isn't how do I raise amounts of calcium in the diet? I currently give him dusted crix and fish and pellets that are reptomin and pond formula which is huge bottle from meiejers on clearance, and goldfish flake food. Would feeding more super worms help?
Thanks josh please help hopefully the pic works

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thanks Josh

New animals that I need help with are 0.0.2 sandfish skinks,
and 0.0.1 texas long nose luckily eating mice
0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
1.0.0 corn snake
1.0.0 childrens python
1.0.0 het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 sunbeam snake(any help with these guys even when not on a post about them will help thanks)
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1. black and white kenyan sand boa
some mice
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

No one can tell you for sure what the problem is on this forum. WIth these pictures it is impossible to see if there is a problem. It could be anything from mineral deposits to shellrot.

You don't want to be told to take him to a vet (which is the right answer even though you don't want to here that) so I won't tell you that but I will tell you no one can really help you out based on what you have given us here.

Good luck with your turtle.

because I would be told that by everyone and I found it is minor shell rot and am treating it the way this site says so if the link works. With the chlorhexidine and then putting the silver sulfadiazine cream on afterwards. Then keeping him dry for about 1 hour and a half. This is the site; http://www.turtlepuddle.org/health/shellrot.html you probably have to copy paste it. Those pix were old and just for looking at not to see what was wrong.
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thanks Josh

New animals that I need help with are 0.0.2 sandfish skinks,
and 0.0.1 texas long nose luckily eating mice
0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
1.0.0 corn snake
1.0.0 childrens python
1.0.0 het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 sunbeam snake(any help with these guys even when not on a post about them will help thanks)
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1. black and white kenyan sand boa
some mice
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

White spots are not evident on your pictures. If you manually peel off the loose scutes, this may cause damage and "white spots" on a young slider. More likely, these may be due to calcium (hard water) effusion under unshed scutes (see this all the time). Are you in a hard water area?
RE your sandfish: keep an area of your tank at over 100 degrees F by using an overhead incandescent light with a reflector. Use the "Calci-sand" (high calcium sand available in other brands at your pet super store). My Arabian sandfish (A different species) have done well for 8 years under these conditions. I feed a simple diet of crickets and mealworms. These are totally delightful creatures and soon learn to "beg' for food when you enter the room.

I realized it may have been from me manually pealing the scales off because they where almost all of the way off for like 3 weeks and I got annoyed but that doesn't explain the areas I didn't peel and the fact my turtle is 4-5 years old and the white that is getting larger on the bottom of the shell.
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thanks Josh

New animals that I need help with are 0.0.2 sandfish skinks,
and 0.0.1 texas long nose luckily eating mice
0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
1.0.0 corn snake
1.0.0 childrens python
1.0.0 het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 sunbeam snake(any help with these guys even when not on a post about them will help thanks)
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1. black and white kenyan sand boa
some mice
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet