What is this????

[puffy137]

I don't know if this is admissible or not, but something similar happened to Esmeralda a few months ago during a vet visit.

She'd never been before and I can only assume it happened due to her being rather stressed out at the whole situation.

Parts of her skin, notably the tops of the legs, tail and some of her neck turned a pinkish colour, but it was concentrated to little pinkish spots around the previously mentioned areas.

It looked very much like this Elohi, but not as red. It had gone by the next morning.


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She was probably just blushing!

 

[Elohi]

It looks more pink than red. Like an unnatural bright pink. Sooooo strange.
The shell rot looks a million percent better just after one treatment but I'll keep it up for 5-7 days and see how it looks untreated for a few days.

 

[Elohi]

Ok so this is going to sound completely ridiculous...since I hadn't thought of this before but I think the pink on Watson's skin is prickly pear fruit staining....
They have had half a prickly pair fruit on two different occasions and I completely forgot about it until last night when I was treating his shell rot and he tucked his tail, revealing two small pink spots on the underside of two marginal scutes. I used a toothbrush and gently scrubbed the two spots and they significantly faded.
I am officially a worry wart!!!

 

[Elohi]

And is it common for shell rot to appear to be completely gone after 1 treatment? It vanished after one treatment but I have continued to treat, just because when I think fungal, I think stubborn...and figure better safe than sorry.

 

[tortadise]

And is it common for shell rot to appear to be completely gone after 1 treatment? It vanished after one treatment but I have continued to treat, just because when I think fungal, I think stubborn...and figure better safe than sorry.

I would say it won't be completely gone microscopically but when catching this early and initial treatment was as fast you initiated it will disappear from your sight. I'd ripen the regime for a good 10-12 days. It won't hurt anything. Need to make sure the fungus/bacteria is gone and not dormant if that makes sense.