General Care Discussion :: Shedding Scutes in pieces

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Post Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:48 am   Shedding Scutes in pieces

Pickle has been shedding his marginal scutes, and some of them are coming off in pieces. Most of the other scutes came off whole but the ones that kind of wrap around the edges are breaking up. Is that normal?
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:44 pm   

Yes, sometimes they come off in big chunks, and sometimes they break off in smaller pieces. As long as eventually the whole scute is shed, then it's perfectly fine.
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Post Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:34 am   

Hmmm, I have the opposite problem. The marginals are usually intact but the other scutes break up.
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