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Ok so i'm considering getting a Leucistic Texas Rat from a local pet store. I know. It's always better to get a snake from a breeder. However, this one has been there a long time, getting good sized and I used to work there so I know it's a pretty good animal. AMAZING temperment. Reminds me of a corn. Anyway. It's a Leucistic but has one brown scale on it's back. Is this common or is it a sign of something wrong. It didn't have it when I worked there and an old friend who still is there said he noticed it out of no-where a couple months ago. Should I be concerned?

It's common, the spots are usual red or black, but generally thay will have a few scales with color. nothing to worry about

that happens in some of the leucistics. There was a guy who kept getting leucistic black rats with one red scale.

It's just an odd scale.
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1.0.0 Great Plains Ratsnake
1.0.0 Corn, Lavender Aztec het for Amel
0.1.0 Black Ratsnake
0.0.1 Texas Rat (tame)
1.0.0 Broad Banded Water Snake, Hypo
1.0.0 Black Bassador Retriever
2.1.0 Godchildren, 1 Evil, 2 possible hets

Yeah, My female black rat has two red/orange scales on her back.

I have a beautiful male Lavender Texas rat snake. He was quite a pissant when I first got him. Now he eats dead right off the paper and doesn't want to bite my face off anymore.
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Thanks,

Frank Roberts

My female lavender is still kind of a pissant, but I still love the little beauty.

I need a female for my male, but I rarly see these available.
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Thanks,

Frank Roberts

Thanks, I believe she was Terry Walter's original.
I could be wrong. She never seemd to tame down, She will take f/t from my hand, but will not let me touch her without drawing first blood.

Thanks for sharing pics.
-daniel

another favorite

I want her
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Thanks,

Frank Roberts