White spots on the bottom shell of my cherry head red foot, please help

[mayorie]

hi we just got a 9 month old cherry head red foot, and this week we noticed some white spots at the bottom of his shell (his under belly?) i'm concerned it might be some kind of fungus or rot. his substrate might be too moist?

please help! we're very new at this

 

[Yvonne G]

Hi Mayorie:

It looks like the beginning of shell rot. We have lots of threads on the Forum on how to care for that problem. Here's just one of them:

http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/tortoise-shell-rot-and-how-to-treat-it.63813/

 

[Pearly]

This looks like shell rot, should be easy to treat with antifungal cream (the kind people use for althetes foot), but you may also need to look into your substrate (if you are using the right kind and if you are keeping it too wet)

 

[mayorie]

thank you so much Yvonne and Pearly! I was panicking a bit =)

 

[ZEROPILOT]

For future reference....
That's a simple SHELL FUNGUS. The less severe and much easier to treat cousin of a TRUE case of SHELL ROT.

 

[Chubbs the tegu]

Fairly common. Try to keep the top layer of substrate dry while moist on the bottom layers. I know its a trial an error trying to make sure the humidity is just right. Good luck! Nothing a lil cream wont fix