Quote Originally Posted by Pythonfriend View Post
about rat bites:

rats can easily bite through wood or bone. who in their right mind can believe that the soft scales of a BP protect against a rat bite?

the nastiest possible injuries are when a rat manages to damage the jaw or skull of the snake. Do you think this will change without the "protection" of scales, really?

I would like to point out that there are no issues with scaleles corn snakes and scaleless texas rat snakes. Scaleless beardeds are problematic, but i say thats apples to oranges, bearded dragons with scales have quite extreme scales, also they have legs.

i indeed do believe that if the belly scales and heat pits are fine, they will be just as perfect as scaleless texas rats and scaleless corns. no diference in husbandry. We will see.
Feeding live is a stupid idea for any snakes