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SCALELESS Corn
- Thread starter StrangeCargo
- Start date
5 Star Serpents
Ryan and Terri
I love their faces!!! I think they are really pretty animals
MysticExotics
(formerly NWHeather)
Hey, welcome back! Thank you for sharing the history & the pictures! You always have fabulous animals!
dave partington
Crazy Dave
Yeah, Velvety. Supple. Distinctive.
Jim Godfrey
Not In The Click
The scaleless Texas in the third photo is one of the coolest looking snakes I have seen. Very nice animals.
MotleyMedusa7
lovin' my sweet corns
The only scaleless I've held was yours at the eths show, it definitely felt so soft and velvety & that's when I found out they all still have their ventral scales which made me not so worried about them having problems with irritation on their bellies. 
Michael823
New member
Very neat!
The scaleless discussion is interesting, to me. On the one hand, there's no question that they've developed larger scales over millions of years for a purpose (.. survival), however, the same could be said for their natural coloration, patterns, etc. A snow Corn Snake would probably be killed from predation far before a scaleless would die from it's mutation (in the wild), so it would be somewhat hypocritical to condemn the breeding of the mutation for survival's sake.
Of course, the reality is that these animals likely would suffer more danger in the wild because of this mutation (how could they not, lacking their original 'armor'), but they will likely never be wild, as I'm sure that was not the intent of breeding them. And captive care does seem to be proving that these snakes have no ill effects from the mutation in a controlled environment. So to these snakes particularly, they seem no worse off than any other snake.
My only nit-picking discrepancy.. I don't believe that the comparison given to a Leopard Gecko proves that (universally) reptiles can survive with such skin/scales. Snakes, as everyone knows, have adapted those thick scales to adapt to a body without legs. While the Leopard Geckos have the smoother skin to adapt to their unique environment with legs. So in their own environment's, a scaleless Corn Snake would most likely suffer far more battle wounds than a Leopard Gecko would, with it's skin, because the snake simply hasn't adapted to keep it's more sensitive body above the ground, or safe from the predators/prey that will now more easily be able to injure the snake's weaker scales.
The scaleless discussion is interesting, to me. On the one hand, there's no question that they've developed larger scales over millions of years for a purpose (.. survival), however, the same could be said for their natural coloration, patterns, etc. A snow Corn Snake would probably be killed from predation far before a scaleless would die from it's mutation (in the wild), so it would be somewhat hypocritical to condemn the breeding of the mutation for survival's sake.
Of course, the reality is that these animals likely would suffer more danger in the wild because of this mutation (how could they not, lacking their original 'armor'), but they will likely never be wild, as I'm sure that was not the intent of breeding them. And captive care does seem to be proving that these snakes have no ill effects from the mutation in a controlled environment. So to these snakes particularly, they seem no worse off than any other snake.
My only nit-picking discrepancy.. I don't believe that the comparison given to a Leopard Gecko proves that (universally) reptiles can survive with such skin/scales. Snakes, as everyone knows, have adapted those thick scales to adapt to a body without legs. While the Leopard Geckos have the smoother skin to adapt to their unique environment with legs. So in their own environment's, a scaleless Corn Snake would most likely suffer far more battle wounds than a Leopard Gecko would, with it's skin, because the snake simply hasn't adapted to keep it's more sensitive body above the ground, or safe from the predators/prey that will now more easily be able to injure the snake's weaker scales.
BSLMichael
Below Sea Level Reptiles
How much does a het scalless go for???