Those long, curved nails are getting sharp....ouch!
Anyhow, since Gomez snapped out of her funk, I've noticed she's started growing.....fast. Maybe faster than Beaker. A little too fast, and I think her shell is showing the effects.
The central scutes seem normal, but the costal scutes look like they are being retained. But what really bothers me about them is they seem to be concave in the center (growing in instead of out?). I'm wondering, could this be caused from rapid growth or overfeeding? (I must confess, I have been going overboard with her, since she ate hardly anything for three whole months).
Her marginal scutes also look a bit weird. Maybe being retained also? The supracaudal scutes were always serrated, in fact they used to curve upwards but now it's much less profound:
But here's where it really gets odd. The plastral scutes are well defined, but larger scutes seem to be growing in behind them. Again rapid growth with retention? Thats a pretty wide gap there......
She's been chowing down on everything offered. Pellets, veggies, cuttlebone, I even caught her chasing after one of the fish. She's been very active and basking regularly. Any ideas on what's going on here?



