I do miss them....

Giving up my indigos when I lived in Maryland to move down to Florida was definitely one of the drawbacks of that decision. I loved the hell out of those guys. Probably one of my fondest memories was when my first clutch hatched out on my birthday one year. I stood there with a double handful of beautiful baby eastern indigo snakes and just stared at them.

Heck, it's breeding season right now for those guys, isn't it?

Yup....breeding season for Drymarchon is just getting started. I can definitely relate with you on the frustration of being a Floridian and a indigo lover
I've compensated by keeping Texas indigos, Black Tail, Yellow Tail and Unicolor cribos. The Texas indigos are just awesome animals to keep and have very similar dispositions to the easterns.

My Black Tails and Unicolors are breeding right now. Here's one of my Black Tails hatchlings from this year getting it's first view of the world.
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Hey Chris!

What's up? Haven't heard from you for a bit. You still covered up with Blacktail babies?

Gerald

Hey Gerald,
You bet. I'm just now getting to the point where I have some consistantly eating unscented F/T fuzzies. Just about all of them are reliable eaters on fish scented (which is so easy that I haven't made great efforts to switch them over).
Next year should be a blast if I end up with unicolor hatchlings too Seriously though, the challenge of working with these hatchlings has been kinda fun.

Did you find a male YT to pair up with your big female?

Oh, yeah. I've ended up with 2.4 adult Y/Ts for this season. They are breeding now. My rubidus and unis are breeding, too. So, like you said....should be fun. If that big Y/T female takes, I wouldn't be surprised if she drops 30 or more eggs. I could end up with 70 or 80 baby drys to start. Just shoot me....

Hi Rich,

Florida will allow you to have a single sex of Drymarchon couperi if you are using them for educational purposes, like showing them to your kids' classmates at school.

The state won't let you have both sexes lest you breed them, but you can have a couple of snakes of a single sex. Of course you have to buy them from one of the many out of state breeders.

Best of luck,
robert

I could end up with 70 or 80 baby drys to start. Just shoot me....

(LOL) Maybe we should form a support group.

Florida will allow you to have a single sex of Drymarchon couperi if you are using them for educational purposes, like showing them to your kids' classmates at school.

I know that this is F&W's official position but I haven't heard of anyone who has actually been able to obtain a couperi permit in recent years. A friend of mine actually does educational talks for FL F&W and has been not been able to obtain a permit despite trying for a few years.
I asked the F&W officer who does my venomous inspections how I would go about getting an educational permit for a single couperi. His response was "you aien't".

From what I've heard it's virtually impossible to get a permit now....although I'd love to hear that I'm wrong about this.

I'm sorry to learn this....

So you are breeding unis? PLease put me on your' list for a pair when they hatch! I am trying to start a colony. Serliously write me down! And thanks for being here!
T.

My unis are locked up right now as I'm typing. I cracked the window tonight because the temps were in the high 60's. I just checked in on them and they are locked up.
This is actually the first time I've witnessed copulation with any of my Drys. Last year I was never able to catch my BT's in the act.
My male uni is one of Dan Felice's hatchlings that I raised up and I got my female from Bobby Lee a couple years ago.

I'm definitely pretty excited about it.