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    Scute fell off, cracked underneath Red Foot Tortoise

    What the hell is going on here??? My tortoise escaped his outdoor enclosure on a day I put him outside when it was 76 degrees in Washington state. We couldn’t find him anywhere and continued to look for days on end. Finally we found him, he was missing from October 10-October 22. Temperatures...
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    Help is this shellrot? My Redfoot losing plastron scutes

    I was giving my 3 yr old redfoot a bath and I noticed one of her plastron scutes had fallen off. I was kind of horrified by that but after a lot of research I started immediately treating her with Beta iodine and a topical skin cream. I also used Chlorhexidine diluted to clean the area scrubbing...
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