Derma balls

[Beardedragon]

rats... get rat bites all the time. Also i don't find that rats have any real trouble puncturing even scaled snakes when given the chance... so i don't know why necessarily a rat bite = "gonner" for a scale-less one.

Just because the snake is scaleless doesn't mean it's not still ectothermic. You'd still put the temp at normal BP temps.

I feel that your arguments are... lacking :/

That is because I am not Arguing, this thing isnt even genetic so it does not even matter! your waisting you time trying to prove anything. Do you think that if a rat bit a scaleless one it would not go deeper than one with scales? I have around 4 scaleless(LMAO EDIT! hairless) rats and one I have had since july, still no marks on any of them. Why would you want a less than perfect bp? Because you think its pretty? You can do what you want but you will not see one in my collection should one ever prove out.

This would be a situation where the benefits of feeding pre-killed would far outweigh any benefits of feeding live. I would think you would also keep it at your standard temperatures -- and just like any other ball, it would thermo-regulate itself. While it is likely that it could burn itself much easier due to the lack of scales, I would think that unless you have a thermostat malfunction it wouldn't be something to worry about.

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it as long as it can live and function properly just like any other snake. It's not like its missing it's eyes or has a kinked spine. The scaleless corns and rats that I've seen don't seem to have any health problems, and you gotta admit -- the lack of scales really makes those colors POP.

The only problem with that is while most will take p/k or f/t, alot do not. About half of my snakes will only eat live. Im not fully saying that it could not live a normal life, im saying why would you want to encourage breeding a snake that could have complications?