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Post Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:46 pm   Hooray! I found a scute!

I cleaned out Frankie's filter yesterday, and found a scute!
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Ok, so it's tiny, but it's progress! It's the first scute I've found after 10 months! I'm pretty sure it's from her plastron. Nothing from her carapace yet, but hopefully by this time next year, she'll have a shiny new shell!
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Frankie, "Young at heart."
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:10 pm   

Sweet!
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 7:30 pm   

nice man! :P
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 7:37 pm   

You're on your way to making a necklace. :p
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:28 pm   

EmperorTunaFish wrote:You're on your way to making a necklace. :p
LOL
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:17 pm   

It looks like it might be from the carapace actually, or one of the side scutes.
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:12 pm   

EmperorTunaFish wrote:You're on your way to making a necklace. :p


:lol:

untsmurf wrote:It looks like it might be from the carapace actually, or one of the side scutes.

I'm pretty sure it's not from the carapace, since it's yellow in colour, and not brown (hard to tell from the pic). My first thought was one of the side scutes as well, though I didn't know if there was a proper name of them :P Either way, it's just a piece of the scute, not the whole thing.
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:15 pm   

Sorry I'm tired and a little dumb apparently, I meant plastron not carapace. Sorry. :lol:

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Post Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:16 pm   

Lol, no worries! I looked it up myself to make sure I was using the right word :lol:
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Post Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:55 pm   

lol yeah is always exciting when you find those. rolo's recently been popping them like crazy. i kept a few of them in a little box :D
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Post Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:46 am   

YAY for Frankie!
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