Going through my daily reads on tortoise health and have a question

[Rynan]

I've been going through white spots/ yellow fungus / bacterial infections/ pyramiding and other threads on here. I ran into several of these posts about white spots that everyone said were normal. But I'm just very curious what they are. Are these growth lines or patterns growing in?



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Help! White spots/patches on baby sulcata

Hello I'm a new baby sulcata owner and I am so worried, please help me! I recently noticed these white spots/patches on my baby's shell. What is it??? My baby is 2 months old (I got him/her from a breeder 1 month ago). Shell length is approximately 2.75 inches, weighs 2 oz. He/she eats a lot...

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[wellington]

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[Tom]

I've been going through white spots/ yellow fungus / bacterial infections/ pyramiding and other threads on here. I ran into several of these posts about white spots that everyone said were normal. But I'm just very curious what they are. Are these growth lines or patterns growing in?

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original post from:

Help! White spots/patches on baby sulcata

Hello I'm a new baby sulcata owner and I am so worried, please help me! I recently noticed these white spots/patches on my baby's shell. What is it??? My baby is 2 months old (I got him/her from a breeder 1 month ago). Shell length is approximately 2.75 inches, weighs 2 oz. He/she eats a lot...

tortoiseforum.org

I can't see anything out of the ordinary in the posted pic, and I can't zoom in on it either.

If you are talking about the white squiggly lines: No one knows what it is. It is normal and not harmful in any way that we can see.

 

[Rynan]

I can't see anything out of the ordinary in the posted pic, and I can't zoom in on it either.

If you are talking about the white squiggly lines: No one knows what it is. It is normal and not harmful in any way that we can see.

I see, thank you. Sorry I didn't upload it in jpg. But just a tip, holding ctrl while scrolling up on your mouse wheel will make any page bigger so will the image, scrolling down to shrink the page. You can also adjust it by Zooming in n out. But the original post linked above had more and better pictures.

I appreciate the knowledge.

 

[Tom]

I see, thank you. Sorry I didn't upload it in jpg. But just a tip, holding ctrl while scrolling up on your mouse wheel will make any page bigger so will the image, scrolling down to shrink the page. You can also adjust it by Zooming in n out. But the original post linked above had more and better pictures.

I appreciate the knowledge.

Thank you for the tip, but I use a Mac. No mouse wheel here. Know how to do it on a Mac?

 

[Thomas tortoise]

I saw the white little spots on the scutes. They look like air bubbles...🤔 this is very interesting. I don't think I saw that on my sulcata when he was that young.

 

[Rynan]

Thank you for the tip, but I use a Mac. No mouse wheel here. Know how to do it on a Mac?

I think options, command, and equals sign if they haven't changed it, eqyals sign or +, then options command and - to zoom out