Quote Originally Posted by Greg'sGarters View Post
The picture you posted up I forgot about. Lol. That looks to me like a reverse paradox more than a piebald. Yeah selling that as a piebald is like crossing 2 snakes missing a few scales here and there, and selling them as scaleless.
Actually it could be as simple as this snake ingested something toxic and shed off color in some of it's scales. This has been seen in boas and some other species already. Boa gets a bad rat and BOOM, sheds off half it's color in one shed! I wouldn't call that one a pied either. pied animals should have at least a "patch" of white somewhere, and I haven't seen any true pied animal of any species where the remaining pattern on the snake was normal. If this DID prove out to be a morph of any kind, which I seriously doubt... it would fit better into the "calico" description... at least that is what most of those white flecked things are called these days. There are other reasons besides genetics which cause scales to lose all color... and given how small the areas are on that one, I would just be surprised to see it genetic. Not impossible, just improbable.