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you have pm hun but look up at my last post there is another care sheet on here
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you have pm hun but look up at my last post there is another care sheet on here


cheers got both links
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Definitely a RES, and it appears to be suffering from scute retention, have you had it long?
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Definitely a RES, and it appears to be suffering from scute retention, have you had it long?


no mate i rehomed it 2day and whats scute retention ??
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Google dysecdysis...it will give you an idea of what he means....it neednt be serious...but needs a look see.
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thanks is it very bad
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Scute retention is where the old scutes haven't shed properly, they build up and the shell looks lumpy, a bit like pyramidding in tortoises but the cause is different in turts.

This one does appear to be shedding a bit, but there are still one or two layers of old scutes firmly attached underneath. If it hasn't gone too far, which in this one it hasn't, then it's easily sorted with a combination of correct habitat and diet, the lack of which has caused it in the first place.

Do you know how it was kept before you got it?
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