ball on my tortoises plastron

Eduardo.M

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I was installing my tortoise enclosure inside now that the cold is coming and I noticed that one of my torts has a weird formation on its right side of the gular, I’m ashamed I didn’t see this sooner but hopefully someone can tell me what this could be, and what I should do, thank you.

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zovick

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I was installing my tortoise enclosure inside now that the cold is coming and I noticed that one of my torts has a weird formation on its right side of the gular, I’m ashamed I didn’t see this sooner but hopefully someone can tell me what this could be, and what I should do, thank you.
Hard to see what is going on from the one photo. Can you post one of the entire bottom shell of the tortoise, please?
 

Eduardo.M

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A while back my sisters dog got a hold of my tortoise and managed to break a little bit of it’s plastron, it didn’t bleed or puncture so the vet told me I had nothing to worry about, but now I’m starting to think that because of that, the tortoises shell growth is “confused” I don’t know how else to put it, but I’m afraid the older it gets the bigger the deformity could get until it affects it.

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Is that puss on the bottom of his right side? Does the other side look like a scab? It the "bump" soft or the area around there on either side?
 
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