Bottom of Shell

[turtlelover]

I was wondering, I had a eastern box turtle and he had a weird brown spot on his belly and then six months later he died.

RIP Tom Box Turtle

Did the spot have anything to do with it? Or was it because I did not have a UV lamp?

[Chez]

Hello turtlelover, welcome to the forum Sorry to hear about the boxie, I recently lost a turtle too so I know how it is.
A brown spot on the bottome of the shell could've been a couple of things.. we'd really need to see a pic of it to be certain. If you don't have any, see if you can find one on images.google.com and then link to it.
:chez

[turtlelover]

This is a pic of a turtle of the same bread:



It said that the bottom of the shell could be brown or yellow or both, but it was soft. He was also afraid of men with beards.