Help! (dry new growth)

[VWilliams]

This is chelona. She is about 4/5 years old now. But just yesterday I saw this on her shell and I don't know what to do about it. It's very dry and flaky. Not sure how to counteract this.
She is acting normal otherwise. Very active eating drinking and pooping normal

 

[VWilliams]

Here are some more photos

 

[Tom]

That looks pretty normal for a dry climate. How are you housing her? Does she burrow in summer? Do you have a heated, humidified night house? How do you heat the tortoise at night?

 

[VWilliams]

That looks pretty normal for a dry climate. How are you housing her? Does she burrow in summer? Do you have a heated, humidified night house? How do you heat the tortoise at night?

I am in the process of building her a very rough house. She does love to burrow in the summer. But with the monsoon season I have to dig her out since where she burrows tends to collapse. I don't have a night house yet.But I have plans on making something for her for the winter. I don't have a night house or heater since it was summer and I check to make sure she is some where warm at night and if it rains or is a storm I bring her inside with some heating

 

[Yvonne G]

That just looks like a very, very dry shell to me. The new growth is dry and cracked. It might help if you take a Q-tip and paint the growth seams with cold pressed coconut oil. Allow the oil to absorb for about 15 minutes then polish it off with a clean, absorbent cloth. Be sure to polish it all off because it attracts ants.

Once you get the night house built, you can add a container of water inside to help with humidity in there.

@Tom : Why do you s'pose these sulcatas that have been raised in dry Arizona conditions are all growing such nice, smooth shells, when we're touting they need to be raised in monsoon conditions?

 

[Yvonne G]

That just looks like a very, very dry shell to me. The new growth is dry and cracked. It might help if you take a Q-tip and paint the growth seams with cold pressed coconut oil. Allow the oil to absorb for about 15 minutes then polish it off with a clean, absorbent cloth. Be sure to polish it all off because it attracts ants.

Once you get the night house built, you can add a container of water inside to help with humidity in there.

 

[VWilliams]

That just looks like a very, very dry shell to me. The new growth is dry and cracked. It might help if you take a Q-tip and paint the growth seams with cold pressed coconut oil. Allow the oil to absorb for about 15 minutes then polish it off with a clean, absorbent cloth. Be sure to polish it all off because it attracts ants.

Once you get the night house built, you can add a container of water inside to help with humidity in there.

Thank you!! I will try that and update you all