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I've discovered today that I need to retract a statement I made, above. I said the splits won't shed out....
I took a couple of my snakes out for some sunshine, and discovered that my red-throat '12 girl no longer has any split scales -- just a dark line, where the split used to be, on 7 scales. Two of the scales still have a tiny notch in the trailing edge, but there is absolutely no cleft in any of the scales anymore.
I was somewhat excited and perplexed by this find, because over many decades, I've had many snakes with scars and scalation abnormalities which never really disappeared.....
....and I went in to re-examine my red throat '12 boy. Nope, he still has his cleft scales, unchanged, as far as I can tell. Oh well....I'm not sure what any of this actually proves, but I thought I'd correct my comment above to "sometimes". .....
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