Today I watched an american wildlife program,and they showed this beautiful,huge black snake called indigo snake,the biggest snake in America.
Does anybody of you have such a snake as a pet?

If your talking about the eastern indigo, I believe you must have a permit to own them, they are huge, they metabolize food like crazy, I believe you can own them in one state without a permit though, I think California although Im not positive on that, they really are beautiful snakes though.

here one they are pretty cool

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I know they are an indangered species. We have them here in florida, I have only seen one though and it was about 6 foot long. they are gorgeous, I love the way the sun light reflects off of their scales

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i think I might have heard of them, dont they get like 12 feet?

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You can get them but they are pricey, high maintainance, and there is a lot of paperwork involved!

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I thought they only got to 6 or 7 feet...do they really get as big as 12?

What makes them high maintenance?

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Don't know if they get 12ft...have seen an adult at about 7ft, good solid chuncky snake. We have a friend who is trying to breed his this year, but you don't see them often here and they aren't cheep about £500 a pair ($1000ish) I think. You don't need any paperwork etc over here as I guess that any you own would be CB anyway.

And by high maintainance....big snake, big appitite, fast metabalism...all adds up to equal = lots of excrement

If we had more room and money I would be tempted.

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Oh! Worse than my corns, I guess, which are worse than my python for sure. The corns go a LOT more than I thought they would...I thought they'd only go once a week. It's the python that's only once a week though (hope she won't increase!)

I'd be tempted too for an indigo if I had more money/room (and a husband who loves snakes rather than one who simply tolerates them...not always well either ) ....even if they're higher maintenance. They're gorgeous! We have one at our local museum that I've gotten to touch. Breathtakingly beautiful!

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Thanks for your replies.
They get about up to 8ft long,so they said in that program.
This is certainly a snake I would love to have in the far away future.maybe for my 50th birthday,lol(I'm now getting 37 this month,so a long way to go lol!)