I've had Bella for about two months now - love her to pieces. Before her my only other experience was with a spur-thigh. She had a lovely smooth shell and very uniform scutes, though she was much older and had lived outside all her life (I guess this might have weathered her shell smoother?). Anyway, Bells seems a bit lumpy bumpy and more higgledy-piggledy than Lulah was. She seems happy and healthy in herself, I'm not worried for her at all, I'm just curious as to whether her shell is the norm for Russians?
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It's not too clear on the photos, but she's certainly not domed. Her sides to her rear are slightly in-dented. Not so much that it looks like an obvious deformity, but it's not domed as I've heard Russians described.
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It's not too clear on the photos, but she's certainly not domed. Her sides to her rear are slightly in-dented. Not so much that it looks like an obvious deformity, but it's not domed as I've heard Russians described.