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>>I don't know about color but I am very confident that changing my snakes diets from mainly rodents to a mixture of rodents, chicks, fish and lots of DOR's has been greatly beneficial to their overall health.
>>As stated in a previous post, 2 years ago my female produced 8 eggs, but retained 5 of them. After changing the diet and giving her a year off she produced 10 good eggs this year. Coincidence? I think not.

Not surprising to me, but I'm very happy to see you post this. I used to participate in forums in order to share information on what I fed my indigo, but I stopped because of all the (unfounded) criticism and snide remarks from some "experts." I always believed that feeding an indigo like a boid (ie, all rodents) might be easiest and most convenient for the owner (which is understandable,) but not the healthiest for the snake. Given wild indigos eat mainly low fat, high protein and high calcium diets (ie, snakes, frogs, etc), farm raised rodents (ie, high fat, lower protein, and lower calcium) are not the best wrt the snake's health. Just seems like common sense, analogous to feeding a human child fresh fruit, veggies and broiled chicken rather than a Big Mac every day.

Regarding color, for what it's worth I fed my indigo mostly anoles (green anoles and larger Puerto Rican crested anoles,) some fish and a very occasional mouse for probably the first two years of its life. If anything, the small amount of red on his chin/throat faded. Not sure that really means much, but thought I'd mention it. Right now my snake is about 4 years old, and I have him on quail and rabbit pinkies. I wish I could get some feeder snakes, but it's hard to find DOR's where I live.

Thanks,
Ed

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