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I noticed that one of my corns has a couple of divided belly scales. The first couple are a little more than half way down. The others are a few rows before the vent. Non of my other corns has these. Is this natural or could there be some other "influence" such as cross breeding, hybridizing etc?
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That's an interesting find. I'll have to take a look at mine and see what they all have. I have not kept enough corns in my lifetime to say if that's an odd ball thing that that you run across from time to time. As far as I know with corns, kings, rats, you have single ventral scales all the way to the vent, and then right after they are divided.

Steve

Got replys from another forum that this is seen sometimes in wild corns so I guess it's nothing to worry about. Hey Steve on a side note, I saw the lavender corn's pic I got from you on the Snake House website and also saw that he is possible het hypo. Now I really hope he breeds my hypo miami to prove it out!!
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Hey that's great. I hope he ends up het hypo. That would be icing on the cake.
Steve

>>Got replys from another forum that this is seen sometimes in wild corns so I guess it's nothing to worry about. Hey Steve on a side note, I saw the lavender corn's pic I got from you on the Snake House website and also saw that he is possible het hypo. Now I really hope he breeds my hypo miami to prove it out!!

As I mentioned to this same topic in the hybrid forum I have seen what you describe in baby snakes on many different species and to my knowledge it always disapears as the snake grows. I think it is from when it is absorbing the remaining nutrients just before coming out of the egg but I am not sure on that.

Also just for example both of my 06 triple het suboc's have that same line in the belly scales.

I think the original post did actually mean two separate ventral scales, and not what many get confused with the "scar" on the belly that originally connected the embryo to the yolk inside of the egg.....People seem to always get the two mixed up!
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Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!

... I was busy doing 4 things at once when I first read the post and didn't make the connection that he was reffering to physically seperated scales rather then just scales that were visibly divided as in the case of the mentioned scar.

Thanks for the heads up and clarification.

Sean.

these are definitly divided scales. I have received replies from other that say they have seen this before in both captive and wild specimens so I guess it's just one of those things...
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