Thanks @Markw84. Very educational as usual.
There are still a few minor things I'm not understanding about how the new keratin grows.
I'll get a couple of photos later tonight, but sometimes I see a nice steady growth of keratin, this displays as a thin white line around the scute boarders, then sometimes I see a very obvious wide crevice. We obviously get growth rings around the scutes. So when I see a white keratin line between scutes, it's actually 2 lines, one for each adjacent scute. Is that correct.
When I see a wide crevice between scutes what am I actually looking at, is it a sign that the tort is too dry at that particular moment and the new keratin hasn't expanded to fill the crevice. Where does that new keratin grow from. The bottom of the crevice, or from under the last hard keratin growth.
There are still a few minor things I'm not understanding about how the new keratin grows.
I'll get a couple of photos later tonight, but sometimes I see a nice steady growth of keratin, this displays as a thin white line around the scute boarders, then sometimes I see a very obvious wide crevice. We obviously get growth rings around the scutes. So when I see a white keratin line between scutes, it's actually 2 lines, one for each adjacent scute. Is that correct.
When I see a wide crevice between scutes what am I actually looking at, is it a sign that the tort is too dry at that particular moment and the new keratin hasn't expanded to fill the crevice. Where does that new keratin grow from. The bottom of the crevice, or from under the last hard keratin growth.