No scales on chin?

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Originally Posted by tttaylorrr

i mean the snake could have scraped/rubbed hard as a baby; Yellow managed to rip a scale off his chin as a baby. but that snake still looks a bit young and odds are the owner has had it the whole time.

definitely interesting.

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Looks so odd, though, to symmetrical for a injury? Plus some of the bordering scales are there, just smaller then normal. Quite odd.

I'm not "into" scale less personally, but I wondered if that could be some kind of genetic "disorder" of some kind?

See is pretty and now unique.

Looks like its suppose to be like that and to smooth to be a injury id think. Kinda cool.

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Originally Posted by zina10

Looks so odd, though, to symmetrical for a injury? Plus some of the bordering scales are there, just smaller then normal. Quite odd.

I'm not "into" scale less personally, but I wondered if that could be some kind of genetic "disorder" of some kind?

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the possibility could be there. if het scaleless can present on the head, who's to say it can't present anywhere else?

Not sure, who knows, perhaps it is a former injury, but if so, he doesn't know about it. Got the snake at 123 grams, noticed the scales missing a couple weeks into owning her. She is now 230 grams and looks the same.

If it was a injury, it must have been severe enough to never regrow the scales ?

oh, and there is no "history" on the snake, was purchased at a pet store..

No one there noticed the scales missing, neither did the new owner for a while. Probably because its on the chin, kind of hidden by the overhanging upper jaw ? And the coloration of the snake sort of hides that as well..