Salome
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Hi. I am Salome and live in South Africa and I have a tortious but I still need to find out the name. In 1964 my parents found him in a veldt fire in a field infront of their house. This field was soon to be developed into a residential area. He survived and lived with them ever since. I was born in 1968 and now that my dad has passed on and my mom is in an Old Age Home I still have him with me. He lived on a paw paw, fruit and mince diet as well as snails. I have no idea how old he is. I noticed today that on his two front feet their's a black area and it seems that the scale that was in the black region has fallen out. Is it foot fungal or bacterial infection. I will load photos later tomorrow. I will wash it with anti bacterial wash and put on Germolene ointment. Any other ideas?I will try to find anything on Internet.