General Care Discussion :: Shiny, gold... "paint" on shell ?

[Trevor's_Mom]

The past couple of days Trevor has developed a couple of small "spots" (for lack of a better word) on the edges of his shell that literally look like someone scooped him up and painted gold metallic paint on him. I know its NOT paint, LOL, but no idea what it could be. It doesn't rub off if I scrub, he's active and eating/pooping like normal, basking like normal, nothing has changed in his environment, temps/lighting etc...all still the same. I seem to have a vague memory of him getting this once before, probably about 8 or 9 years ago (he's 17.5) and that it just went away. I don't remember if he just shed his scutes off and then it was gone, or if it just faded off...

And since now I have this forum to search for answers on, I thought I'd put it out there and ask if you guys know what it is/may be.

Any ideas?

[Luis02]

no idea and great you ask since one of my turts has the same, but it's visible when he's swimming only. He seems fine as well.

[Jaysea]

is he shedding at all? Cody has that on the edges of his rear scute where he's shedding. Got any pics of it?

[Diamondbacks4Life]

Looks to be he is starting to shed, my one res always gets the golden shinny spot on his shell before he sheds. In the water it looks gold.

Kinda looks like this right?

[marisa]

Metallic spots mean that air is getting under the scute as it loosens in preparation to shed.

[Luis02]

which is...nothing to worry about... right?

[Jaysea]

Nope it's just a normal part of shedding

[Trevor's_Mom]

Looks to be he is starting to shed, my one res always gets the golden shinny spot on his shell before he sheds. In the water it looks gold.

Kinda looks like this right?

Yup, looks like that...but its REALLY gold and shiny in the water, literally just like someone painted on him. Also, Trevor's is on the scutes near the edge of his shell...though he has a few on top scutes too. We put a couple of fake trees around his aquarium yesterday (we had to get them out of our dining room...I was really tired of the cats climbing up them and having the trees tip over onto my dining room table, LOL) and it seems to have given him more privacy- he likes them, and is basking more. He basks a lot during the day while we are at work- we know, we set up the camera to tape him!- but now with the trees, he's doing it while I'm home too, and on the computer in the same room he is in. Yay!

I'll try to take a pic over the weekend; can't do it by myself unless I can get a good one of him swimming, he's too big to hold with only one hand while trying to take a pic with the other, LOL.

[Trevor's_Mom]

Metallic spots mean that air is getting under the scute as it loosens in preparation to shed.

Had to tell you that I love your quote you use in your signature. Love it.