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I just recently brought home a 2004 CB eastern indigo hatchling from Dean Alessandrini. Thanks Dean! He's a pleasure to care for and is doing great with feeding. I'll try to post another picture soon since he has shed after this pic was taken.

He's very nice looking. Where does he get his name from?
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One female Eastern Indigo. That's right, just one snake. But she's my dream-snake, so back off man.

Actually I was racking my brain trying to come up with a name that would fit him. Almost named him Flik. Thought about Orlando as a name also, but I just made up the name Kokuu so that it would be totally unique. I know the names Koda and Kovu from Brother Bear and The Lion King 2 flashed through my mind so that was an influence.

How's your two (Solomon and Lenore) doing? They are great pets aren't they. So alert and attentive when they're out and about.

actually I see that Lenore's brother Solomon belongs to Eric East. I guess I just assumed they were together. In that case how are things going with Lenore?

Yeah, Solomon belongs to Eric. Lenore is going very well. She established her apetite early on and nothing seems to affect it. She is still a nervous young snake (of course), but (confident in her appetite) I've experimented a little more with having her out. Usually I just do it right before I clean her cage (for 5-10 minutes...last time it was for 15). It's sort of my incentive to clean the cage. So she gets held, briefly, about twice a week.

When I have her out, I've been wearing an old bathrobe, for a few reas. Easy clean up (though she has yet to poop on me and, on several occaisions, has pooped right after I put her back in the cage). But mostly, the folds of the robe give her places to hide when she is out. Also, I imagine the old robe smells quite a bit like me and I'm hoping she starts to associate my scent as a safe zone and not just a predator.

I think it's worked to an extent. She does indeed hide in the robe, sometimes when given the choice of going elsewhere. So even when she is hiding from me, she is hiding with me. Also, it's bulstered her confidense when she's out. Instead of scared, jerky movements...her curiosity takes over and (from the safety the robe's sleeve, starts checking out various objects and curiosities in my room
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One female Eastern Indigo. That's right, just one snake. But she's my dream-snake, so back off man.

How many people say that the indigo is their "dream snake"
I wan in that category all through my childhood until I got my first indigos when I was about 11 years ago.

It's one of the truely satisfying things about breeding them...you are often turning the offspring over to people who have dreamed of working with an indigo for many years.

You know there's always a little part of me that wants to keep every baby I produce and worries about them, but...the kind of people that end up with the babies just aren't the kind of people that are not going to do their best to take good care of them. It makes it a lot easier to part with them.

It's really satisfying knowing someone who has always dreamed about owning of of these animals has taken one of your babies....knowing the animal may have a 20 year healthy life ahead of it.

I have people from YEARS ago that still give me updates on their "babies", and I really appreciate it...

Well thank you satisfied breeders! You guys give us our dream pets. And yeah, I think the hoops that one has to jump through to get an indigo is a possitive thing. The ones that come out at the other end with one of these fantastic creatures is not the person who will ill treat it.
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One female Eastern Indigo. That's right, just one snake. But she's my dream-snake, so back off man.