Posted by:
DeanAlessandrini
at Fri Oct 24 07:23:31 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DeanAlessandrini ]
Eastern indigos are all glossy.
They tend to become much less glossy when getting near shed cycle.
Also...fat snakes always tend to look less glossy. Healthy indigo snake scales are shiny like wet nail polish.
But...unlike most snakes, indigos, even when not fat, don't have much "overlap" on the dorsal scales. Because of this, if they are even a little overweight, the skin begins to show through the scales. The skim is dark but not shiny...so basically the fatter the snake, the less glossy it appears, at least on the dorsal.
The vental is pretty much always glossy and iridescent.
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