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| shedding scutes | ||||||||
| This page is to help people see what normal scute shedding in turtles looks like | ||||||||
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| this is a res displaying normal scute shedding. notice the mineral deposits under the loose scutes | these are the scutes after removed.Notice the turtles shell is beautiful after the scutes have been removed | |||||||
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| Here is a painted turtle with loose scutes and algae | Here is the same painted turtle " mickey" after some shell clean up. You can see I left one scute on so you can see the difference | |||||||