I picked this beautiful girl up today at Repticon. She was being sold as a 2 year old fire spider. She had some stuck shed on her face and down the first 1/3 of her, not much. Once I got it off I noticed her head looked a little different, the center almost looks as if there’s not any scales. Could she be or is it just something unique to her?
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If she had a scrape on her head when she was younger would it heal over like that? Looks more like something like that to me than how the scaleless trait usually does.
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I didn’t even think of that. It makes sense though. Thanks!
Hopefully someone else weighs in that can say for sure. You’ve had a lot more snakes than me Blue have you seen a scrape heal and look kind of like that?
Also how was repticon?
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I currently have 14 lol. I had one that got loose and ended up with a few shallow cat scratches. She healed in one shed with no evidence of it ever happening. Hers weren’t on her head or very deep, I doubt she even bled more that a drop from all combined.
Repticon was good! I may go back tomorrow and see if I find any good deals lol. This one was definitely more diverse than the one in May
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Looks like an old wound healed over. Most scaleless heads will have scales on entire body smaller then normal and split vent scale. Markers to look for.
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Alrighty, other than that she seems pretty normal so it very well could be!
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Yes it would be just like that but on the very last scale. Not a 100% marker, some scaleless heads dont have it. But either way still a beautiful animal.
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Beautiful! I wasn’t sure since I have seen “scaleless head” snakes that didn’t seem to be missing any scales! I may grab a scaleless head male just to see, I’ve always wanted to see a full scaleless in person!
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I did manage to get a scaleless head male to pair her with once she gets up to size. I showed the picture to a breeder and he wasn’t sure that she was only a spider fire (poss het scaleless head) and that she might have something else in her to make her so light. I searched on here for fire spider adults and they are much darker than her without having pastel or butter/lesser or something else. Does she have something else or is she just a super light fire spider? I have never had so many questions on one animal before 
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My opinion, is that she has more then fire spider. Without knowing the pairing could not tell you for sure. This is my Fire Lesserbee.
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That’s beautiful! Definitely more clean!
I would say she might be a fire pastel spider. Maybe super pastel fire spider.
Here are a couple old listings showing some similar snakes.
https://www.morphmarket.com/us/c/reptiles/pythons/ball-pythons/278331
https://www.morphmarket.com/us/c/reptiles/pythons/ball-pythons/198876
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Yes! Both of those look super similar to her! Maybe the single pastel a little more so but still. Thank you so much!
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