Quote Originally Posted by piedlover79 View Post
I can't speak for scaleless ball pythons, but scaleless corn snake are just as hardy as their scaled counterpart, they even did scientific studies and proved that they do not dehydrate or require different humidity ranges, nor are they pron to injury.

They can also live perfectly normal lives in the wild. Wild rat snakes, rattle snakes, hognose, and bull snakes have all been found in the wild as adult animals.
That is encouraging. But those do still have their belly scales. Maybe it matters and maybe it doesn't, to me the burden of proof should be on demonstrating that it doesn't adversely affect the animal rather than on proving that it does. Humans have a long history of continuing to breed animals for traits that we know have adverse affects and then being in denial about it.