These are a few pics of a female Texas ratsnake with the scaleless mutation owned by myself and Greg Watkins-Colwell. As can be readily noted, scaleless snakes [dorsal scalelessness only] are much brighter in color with vivid patterns. I suspect scales help to keep the tones down in the wild. In any case, scaleless snakes are no more difficult to keep than normal snakes, and shedding has never been a problem. Some lines may have inbreeding which can create their own set of problems, but I am not aware of any difficulties which can be traced directly to scalelessness.
