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I found a couple of pictures of Frida Kahlo that I took about a month after I got her. She is/was in hard water so there is a white haze on her dry shell. Is anything there anything else of concern in the pictures. I realize that they are not that good...

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If you're not familiar with her history, she was given to me as a land turtle. She had been out of water for months. She lived in someone's living room, under the couch. For several weeks after I got her, carpet fibers were constantly coming out of her shell around her arms, legs and neck. She is also missing a left hind limb.

I can't tell much, but she looks OK. How does she look now?

I haven't had her completely out of the water and dried off since then, but I think she looks fine. There is quite a bit less of the white residue on her because I pulled out some chalky substrate I put into the tank originally. She's eating, swimming, basking and generally acting completely normal. I also think she's a bit bigger. I don't know how much growth can occur in a 4-5 month span, but she seems longer and wider than she was.

She looks fine to me also. You also probably have a rio rande res which is just a color phase of res that texas has. They just have better coloring then the average res which yours certainly does. Probably not that much growth occured as she looks pretty big.

Interesting to know that there are color variations. I thought her coloring was a bit diferent than the other RES I've seen pictures of, but I wasn't sure. I'm also glad to hear that the difference isn't due to poor health.

You can't tell in my photos, but her "red ears" are actually two distinct patches of red rather than one large patch on each side. When I first got her they were more orange than red. Now they are a bright orange-red color much like the muscle car color, Competition Red.

Post more pictures when you can when she is nice and clean. She must look fantastic!

The next time I do a full tank clean, I'll get a few new pictures of her. She's a pretty girl.