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Ive heard so much about this snake but all info cant be trusted so i would love to hear from some successful owners of eastern indigo snakes. What size cage should i place the baby in? what subtrate works best, whats the best temp setting for these snakes, do they require humidity or climbing branches? thanks for the help

if you've ever kept a cornsnake, ratsnake or just about any other n/american colubrid, you can keep an indigo or cribo. their requirements are basically the same......

also, you will go through more food and need to be a little more careful of your fingers during feeding time

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Paul Weaver
Carolina Herps

I found some reeeeally helpful tips and general "guides" on [url ban]. A couple of the guides are dead links, but the working ones helped me out.

The website is www[dot]IndigosForever[dot]org

((sorry about that, didn't realize there was a urlban thing.

Cage perimeter should be one and a half times the length of the longest snake, hight should be anything more than 12" with an ample sized vent or screen at each end, aspin bedding at 3" deep, add a 12" x 16" x 4" tall hide box with a 12" x 14" heat pad under the cage opposite side the hide box is located. also a large heavy (ceramic) water bowl, or it'll get dumped often. This set up will get you far with any of the longtailed snakes.

I admire the concrete stats. They offer what looks like quite a successful set-up.

I just hate aspen bedding and would take the more humid cypress any day. And ceramic water bowls drive me crazy. Any porous material I don't think is suitable. There are lots of heavy glass varieties available. You can sterilize these much easier.

These are just matters of opinion, and I only offer it to add to an excellent plate of advice you provided. P.S. the snake in your photo is amazing!

you like that huge labial,# seven and eight mended together and thesame on opposite side, ...I still see that snake every once in a while out in the middle of the state.