Urgent Care :: Woke up this morning to see this on her shell...

[mcghee.kevin]

I cleaned her tank today, full clean, and I found lots of scutes in her gravel so she has shed since the last tank clean. I also gently scrubbed the algea off her shell, I found that most of her scutes were loose and ready to come off, one came off with the scrub and I noticed that the area the the scute was on has a residue on it, a slimey pale white colored, the same stuff that I said was surrounding the area in the red circle, I can only assume that its from water getting trapped under the scute, I looked under the other lose ones where I could and found the same thing.. I hope thats normal. But I still cant tell if that circled area is just air and stuff under the sctue getting ready to shed, I pushed on it lightly with the end of the tooth brush I was using and its soft, so I could be an air pocket, I would assume since all the other scutes are comming off thats all it is.

[marisa]

When you press on it, do you notice any water seeping out the sides? Of the scutes that did shed, are the underlying ones healthy?

The residue you speak of sounds "normal" in the sense that bacteria and bits of debris can collect under scutes if they're a bit slow to shed (and it's when they don't shed that it can develop into a problem). There is no edge that appears to be lifting off at all?

[mcghee.kevin]

not on that specific scute other scutes around it are getting ready. and the one that fell off , the area around it as the white stuff on it still... well shes not acting sick at any rate so thats a good sign