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Scaleless question

Sonya Dec 14, 2010 02:22 PM

So I see these available and I am wondering ....
What genetics is involve? And since belly scutes is how they move around.....do they locomote well? I personally don't care for them but got wondering what brought them about.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
Happy Bunny

Replies (6)

dustyrhoads Dec 14, 2010 03:01 PM

>>So I see these available and I am wondering ....
>>What genetics is involve?

Simple recessive.

scrappy907 Dec 14, 2010 10:47 PM

Scaleless snakes aren't completely scaleless. They still have belly scales and scoot just fine

johnthebaptist Dec 15, 2010 12:30 PM

They sure aren't lookers that's for sure. I see them in Texas rat form mostly which happen to be with the exception of a few asian rat snakes the only colubrid that i have ever downright feared.

Sonya Dec 15, 2010 01:13 PM

>>They sure aren't lookers that's for sure. I see them in Texas rat form mostly which happen to be with the exception of a few asian rat snakes the only colubrid that i have ever downright feared.

LOL they remind me of sphynx cats. Just wrong.
I have never owned Texas rats. Probed some Bamboos for a friend and they all chewed on me. As for fear....just got rid of a BC that was a heathen beast..always went straight for your face. At six foot I decided I had better things to do with her enclosure. And I have a candoia paulsoni...WC giant female that would happily take my face off. Good thing she is a challenge and I don't want to quit on her.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
Happy Bunny

johnthebaptist Dec 15, 2010 11:57 PM

LOL on the sphynx cat. They dont fall under attractive in my book. It seems that brian barczyk is the one breeding the scaleless T rats and corns. Search the gopher forums and youll see an interesting thread on a scaleless gopher caught in the sonoran desert. After being informed that it would violate arizona law to sell the animal the poster claimed to have let it loose. less than a week later brian barczyk posted his new scaleless gopher (only known in existence) on facebook.

DMong Dec 17, 2010 01:52 PM

"less than a week later brian barczyk posted his new scaleless gopher (only known in existence) on facebook"

HAHAAA!!, I know!!!.......

It's a good thing Brian didn't commit a murder or something on an episode of A&E's "the First 48", or he would have been captured within the first 48 seconds!..LMAO!!

~Doug

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