
When they attain a length of 3’, shift them to a CB 70 rack till they are big enough to occupy the adult cage.

On attaining an age of six years, you can shift them to a cage of size more or less 2’ x 1.5’. It is not a real necessity that you provide space for the baby snakes, because most of the time they are in the hideouts. Most breeders suggest an enclosure of 6’ x 2’, which is the least space for a fully developed Drymarchon. As such, they require enough space to wander. In general, these Eastern Indigo Snakes are agile at day and night. Besides, at day time decrease the temperature of their hot areas to 80F Housing For the others, you can retain the temperature from 68 to 70 F. For the Eastern indigos and the Texas indigos, gradually decrease the temperature at night till it falls to 60 F. Most keepers suggest breeding only when the female is four years of age and almost six feet in length.ĭuring the fall, it is said that certain adult snakes lose appetite for food this is the time for you to begin cooling them. In case you try breeding when your female indigo snakes are very young, it will lead to egg binding. When your Eastern Indigo Snake attains a length of six feet, it is time for you to think of breeding / reproduction. The gopher tortoises dwell in the xeric environments, and the Eastern Indigo Snakes utilize the tortoise burrows as shelter. Generally, you can see Eastern Indigo Snakes and gopher tortoises dwelling in the same habitats. These snakes fare well in environments of wetlands and not in xeric (extremely dry) states.

You can see them in scrub Flatwoods dry prairie, tall pine, hardwood hammocks of the tropics, agricultural grounds, banks of fresh water, human beings modified habitats and dunes on the coasts.

However, they are also found in most of the places like Texas, Alabama and South Carolina. The southern province of Georgia and Florida are the places where you can often find the Eastern Indigo Snake. The Eastern Indigo Snakes are agile, vigilant and until they adapt in captivity, timid in nature. READ MORE: Red-bellied Black Snake Behavior In the United States this soft-scaled snake is believed as the longest resident snake. This snake acquired its name from the ventral scales that shine and are smooth, with a blackish-purple appearance in brilliant light. The scales on the lateral and dorsal side of the Eastern Indigo Snake is evenly displayed in a black-blue color, with the exception of some colored orange-red to tan colored throat, chin and cheek. The young indigo snakes look alike, but round their bodies there is a white band The males of this sexually dimorphous Eastern Indigo Snakes grow bigger than their females.

But still the recorded length is 280.4 cm.
#Blue indigo snake biggest full
The length of a full grown snake reaches 157.2 to 213.36 cm. They also have big smooth scales, 17 in number arranged in rows in the middle of the body. These indigo snakes have a uniform black color, except that on the throat, chin and perhaps on the cheek, where they have patches of cream and red. In the United States, the Eastern indigo snake is the biggest, and in the southern parts of The United States, it is the most non-poisonous. This non-poisonous big indigo snake has a tubby body, of an average length of six to seven feet
