why it do that?

[russian/sulcata/tortoise]

i was looking at some sulcata pics and some sulcatas looking compleatly normal except some of there baby scutes are like sticking together weird like. why does this happen? see in the picture what I'm talking about?

 

[Robber]

I have noticed this on some specimens before, where the growth doesn't come in all around the old, but only on one side and the old scutes never separate. I have usually seen it on vertebral scutes though and not marginals. With the marginals, you generally see all the growth develop 'above and in front of' the original scute, so that it ends up in the bottom rear corner, as in the first marginal in front of the circled cluster in the pic. Having said all of that, I'm not sure what causes it. The dryness hypothesis seems to make some sense in the vertebral case, but not so much here.

 

[cmacusa3]

That kind of looks like an old injury.

 

[russian/sulcata/tortoise]

That kind of looks like an old injury.

i don't think it is. to me it looks like 3 baby scutes never separated.

 

[cmacusa3]

Your probably right, it just looks like it on my small phone screen

 

[mike taylor]

Lack of moisture around tge scutes . If you see this put some coconut oil on it .