Shell rot?

[riley_bla41000]

I have two red eared sliders and my male, Bruce has this round white spots about the size of an apple seed all over his shell. I've looked at pictures of turtles with shell rot but my turtle's looks different. Also the smaller scutes around his shell are starting to dissolve I can't really explain it that well. Is it shell rot or not?Thank you!

Sorry for the bad pictures!

 

[riley_bla41000]

The fourth picture is the smaller scutes.

 

[mike taylor]

Look like stuck shedding to me . Do they have a place to get completely out of the water to bask and dry off?

 

[russian/sulcata/tortoise]

are you providing them with a UVB light and a basking light?

 

[riley_bla41000]

are you providing them with a UVB light and a basking light?

I have both now, when I purchased my turtles from pet smart in April they helped us get the stuff we needed but they told us we only need the basking light, but after I did some reading I went and got a uvb light the next day. he had it on his shell when we purchased him but I didn't know because it was only in one spot. The two turtles I have now are my first turtles, I really want to get more but I'm not going to until the ones I have are healthy.

 

[riley_bla41000]

@miketaylor yes they have a place to completely dry off, i have a turtle topper. Ordered it a week after I purchased them.

yes they have a place to completely dry off, i have a turtle topper. Ordered it a week after I purchased them.

 

[riley_bla41000]

To replace the one they already had because they wouldn't get onto it.

 

[riley_bla41000]

are you providing them with a UVB light and a basking light?

What do you think it could be?

 

[russian/sulcata/tortoise]

i just think there normally shelling there scutes it will look like a thin layer of plastic when they fall off.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Actually... I agree with mike taylor
It's called 'retained scutes'. I've GOT to stop talking about this but here's something on that-
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/retained-scutes.100721/

 

[riley_bla41000]

Actually... I agree with mike taylor
It's called 'retained scutes'. I've GOT to stop talking about this but here's something on that-
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/retained-scutes.100721/

Thank you so much for helping me! He's had it for a while and I was really scared it was shell rot! I have a couple of questions though, can I feed it too both of my turtles or should I just feed it to the one? What worked best for you? About how long will it take for his shell to be back to normal? And when his shell is back to normal should I still feed it to him? Thanks!

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Thank you so much for helping me! He's had it for a while and I was really scared it was shell rot! I have a couple of questions though, can I feed it too both of my turtles or should I just feed it to the one? What worked best for you? About how long will it take for his shell to be back to normal? And when his shell is back to normal should I still feed it to him? Thanks!

Do both you turtles have retained scutes?
I did it everyday for about a month, and then the layers of shed ski just started flying off! I do still, to help keep it nice and smooth, but not everyday

 

[Diamondbacks4Life]

Any chance you can get better pics. Ill Be the devils advocate here. Possible that its not normal shedding to me, some areas look too white? Also is that an actual indent in the 4th pic like shell has hole at side?

 

[riley_bla41000]

No only the one, my female looks like she is about to shed her scutes! I'm so excited though because these are my first turtles and I want to see them shed there scutes!

 

[riley_bla41000]

Any chance you can get better pics. Ill Be the devils advocate here. Possible that its not normal shedding to me, some areas look too white? Also is that an actual indent in the 4th pic like shell has hole at side?

I'll try in a minute and If he gets on the basking platform I can get better pics, and it's not like a hole in the shell it's mor like a small chunk of his shell like broke off his shell but he has three little parts.

 

[Diamondbacks4Life]

Yea I have that feeling its probably shell rot actually. I noticed in the pic female he was down below her and unless it was trick of the water. If you noticed two lumps are now at either side of his head. He has double ear abscesses

 

[riley_bla41000]

Any chance you can get better pics. Ill Be the devils advocate here. Possible that its not normal shedding to me, some areas look too white? Also is that an actual indent in the 4th pic like shell has hole at side?

They're still bad photos but when he does bask I'll post them as soon as I can!

 

[riley_bla41000]

Yea I have that feeling its probably shell rot actually. I noticed in the pic female he was down below her and unless it was trick of the water. If you noticed two lumps are now at either side of his head. He has double ear abscesses

Yes he does have ear abscesses but they've gone down a lot, almost like they're gone, we plan to take him to the vet soon when we have the money.

 

[riley_bla41000]

I don't know if this can happen but they don't look like they are there anymore, but we're still going to take him to the vet to make sure.

 

[riley_bla41000]

Just to be clear though, he had the ear abscesses when we purchased him from Petsmart, we didn't know until recently though.