Our male highway we think is a scaleless head! What do you think?

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Hey! We have a male highway that has the scaleless head marking and is missing a few scales. It doesn’t look like a scar or anything he has been fed frozen his whole life :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: So im curious if he might just be one! Pics down below!

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Check the vent scales. Scaleless Head usually has a split scale there.

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He does! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: I got a steal of a deal then lol I paid 400 for him! :heart:

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Just make sure that you breed him to something that has the scaleless gene; either het or visual. So that you would be able to prove him out, just to be safe.

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thank you! Do you think he looks like it though?

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Possibly…scaleless head
But my word is not really applicable in this situation because I do not breed ball pythons let alone scaleless. If someone else could give you an option, someone like @osbornereptiles or @t_h_wyman would be sources with more BP knowledge. Hope it works out for you :grin:
Sorry I can’t be more of a help to you.

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I zoomed in really close and I don’t believe it is scaleless head. It looks like a lack of pigment on the scales, making it appear as if there isn’t some in random spots. I don’t see any scales missing.

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Agree with Ashley.
Not a scaleless head. It has scales on its head, just faded in colour.

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Sorry does not appear to be scaleless head.

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100% with Ashley here.
Scaleless is exactly how the name sounds… there is a lack of scales.

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I’m not seeing scaleless head either. It may have rubbed it’s head in the past leaving those slightly misfitted scales when it healed.

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This animal does not appear to be a Scalelesshead. As noted, what you are seeing appears to be both a matter of pigmentation and also a minor bit of scarring from either a bad shed or head rubbing.

Actually…

Nah… Not going to get in that fight today LOL

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That’s because your wrong… :crazy_face:

I’m just pushing you to get you to go on a educational whirlwind

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Sorry, cannot hear you, too busy cooking

:man_cook:t4: :man_cook:t4:

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I have 2 scaless heads and yours you can clearly see the scales. The lack of color is throwing you off but the scales are there. I wouldn’t say that’s a scaless head at all.

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Doesn’t look scaless head to me just lacking pigment.