General Care Discussion :: is my turtle shedding scutes?

[Jinxie6661]

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[Daniel3507]

kind of hard to tell. it almost looks like she is trying to start shedding though.

[blackforces get you]

i think she's trying to shed

[megcornell]

She is definitely in need of a shed as shown by how jagged her bottom row of scutes are. It looks like she's retaining scutes.
What are you feeding her and does she have UVB lighting? Both a good, balanced diet and UVB lighting will help her shed. Foods that are high in vitamin E are good- things like apple peel and blueberries.

[Jinxie6661]

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[Daniel3507]

just keep her on a good diet. whatever you do dont try and pull any of the scutes off. they will fall off on their own

[scripta_elegans]

It looks to me like her vertebral and marginal scutes are going to come off soon. I think it looks like the scute has an air bubble under it as they loosen. It takes forever for some of them to fall off though!