Paffie is currently dry docked for the moment, I cleaned her tail with Betadine upon waking up and applied Curad Silver gel. A bit of Bag Balm lobbed on top as a moisture barrier -- though I'm likely to adjust this routine. For one I'm looking to order silver sulfadiazine cream in some form.
I'm gonna toss her back into the drink before I heard to work shortly, feed her and let remain undisturbed for the next nine hours or so.
Below I'm including a picture of Paffie's tail and shell. Below that a video of the setup at varying angles.
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Paffie's tail and Shell
Paffie and Squirtle's setup:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mpMvyYGdNfRwjByW6The video link in the above line is a shared album on Google Photos. If I wasn't getting ready for work I would have made a more well-polished video, some still photos within and music.
This video should be sufficient for diagnostic purposes, the only part you can't really see well are the smooth rocks and pieces of slate on the floor of the tank. The metal mesh material shouldn't have any sharp edges on it, though I will triple check that again when I put Paffie back in the tank and will let y'all know if I notice anything obvious.
The reason there is egg crate and metal grid up top is because Paffie is one helluva escape artist. Squirtle does not have a fully-encompassing fence because she only ever succeeds to escape from the front, hence the slap of formica table which I have leaning up there. Yes, it has proven to be enough.
Paffie on the other hand, is fully surrounded by fencing but that wasn't enough. The wooden gate was hastily zip-tied up top almost two months ago because Paffie was climbing and standing on the top-most flat surface of egg-crate. She was still pulling it off until I added that piece of cardboard. Since then, she has not made it over the wall to Swuirtle's side nor has she gotten out of the enclosure.
Thank you, I will more thoroughly review the responses which I am most grateful for. I'm submitting this response hastily because of work but I
want to make sure those you all had a good opportunity to view and critique the setup.