Just thought I would share some pictures of my little Indigo snake in the hope of drawing out more keepers. I have not found many so far, hopefully I have more luck on this European forum.

I have only had this a few months but I am in love with this and all other drymarchon species now, I am very keen on aquiring more!

Relitively easy to keep, they just require a bit more attention as they are messy and have a high metabolism, but this a small cost to pay for such an interesting and, in my opinion at least, beautiful snake.







His set-up.



Won't last very long! I want to aquire more indigo's and keep them in 6ft Herpteks when they are adults, I hope this is large enough as they don't make any bigger viv's yet! Expensive venture for me but hopefully worth it.

Please if you have any pictures of any drymarchon species you have encountered or kept I would love to see them and hear of your experiences. Or even better let me know if you will be bringing any to Houten

Cheers, Owen

your black tail will have enough roo, in a six ft cage when getting couperis or yellow tails you ll have to figure out bigger cages since some of those reach 3 m in length.
as for getting other drymarchon species black tails are common but couperis and yellow tails are not that easy , texas indigos and the rest ofthe family is even harder to get
but its a gorgous species and defenetly wotrth the time money and effort

here are a few pictures that you may enjoy...or not...but I do.

from approx 10 years ago...





and 1 of my favorite phots.

I hope that was not alive morelia.

@ Stephan. Thanks for the reply. That's weird you say that I have seen more Texas Indigo's in collections that the other two you mentioned, and that is still not many, maybe I am talking to the wrong people! If you know of any about I would much appreciate if you could let me know.

@ Eric. Those pictures made me smile. How tiny is that GTP! The most expensive meal ever

That chondro was a die(dead in the egg) and was used as a 1st meal for an indigo and to generally piss people off who would think that a perfectly healthy chondro would be used as a feeder...now a ball python morph is a whole new ball game...







in the beginning...

@ Eric. I really really like that one with the red/slamon colouration, I am very keen on getting one. Thanks for posting the pictures. PS. Nothing like an IPA and Indigo snake eh?

@ Pelon. That is strange, they were in seperate cages and all died on the same day? Possibly heat? You say worse condition so I assume they were WC? I saw some yellow tailed's on an import list recently, quite expensive for WC and a risk I cannot take quite yet incase I have an unfortunate incident like yourself. The snake that survived is very nice though.

No, they were CB, but she had recently layed eggs so she was very thin. Not really "bad condition" like I wrote...

Maby it could´ve been heat. I don´t know. Hope I do it better next time...

Regards

//Pelon

Let's hope so.

I have read certain species of Drymarchon are very susceptible to overheating. Not a problem in England as long as you have a termostat

very nice yellow tail per

owen i lll look if i can find the site agaib from a breeder in the usa you can get all drymarchon from him accept couperis since theycant export those anymore, mine will take another three years before being ready to breed

Stephan, do you mean this site by any chance?

http://web.mac.com/michelsj/Black_Pearl_Reptiles/Home.html

I have emailed him today asking about the process of importing to England. Hopefully I have some luck as it looks like he produces some amazing animals.

yeah thats who i am talking about he ll send anything to oyu but couperis cause those he cant export

There is a guy in Italy who breed absolutely gorgeous Indigos. Both Black heads and Red heads.

Hes name is Vincenzo Salvatico. I don´t think he´s on this forum, but I know him thru Facebook. He´s expecting juveniles till Hamm in December...

Regards

//Pelon

Owen,everything goes better with an IPA,especially an overly hopped one. Jon good eye,it is indeed the infamous basement but they are my photos,his creations.

ps:MODP