Here is Howzit in 1994. His eyes looked strange. His neck had a small white spot on it. His shoulders had white spots. Sometimes when a turtle has these spots it means it is beginning to get the tumor disease.
Some lucky turtles have white spots that go away and cause no harm at all.
Only when the white spots get bigger and lumpy can you be sure a turtle really has fibropapillomas. Fibropapillomas often grow in the eyes first. In 1995 we were very sad to see Howzit. The small happy turtle we knew in 1992 was now very sick. We were surprised at how fast the disease was hurting him.