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Brian, you are correct. It is "shell rot" - though it is in the bone. :-( It looks like she came to us with it from the breeder. The vet cut away a lot of her plastron from two areas on her femoral scute. It looks like it has been under the shell, in the bone, and drying the shell out as it...

I posted some close ups of the what I'm referring to.

This is what I am referring to when I say hole - may not be the right word for it, though.

This is Darwin - I'm worried about this little cutie.

Here is an image.

I was cleaning my indoor Hermann's habitat today and noticed damage to the plastron - looks like it's on the femoral scute. It's a small round hole - the outside shell is just gone. It's not very deep. I'm not sure if this is damage from climbing around obstacles in his cage (though I can't...