Diameter of an adult couperi?

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Posted by Peter Andersson on April 11, 2002 at 12:43:02:

Hi everyone, hi Doug and hi Fonzerella!

I�m new to this forum and this is my first message. I�m a 36 years old guy from Sweden.I have had some experience of snakes and stuff since I was a teenager... I had break for several years and now I been herping for three years.

Have some snake books bought in the eighties and there�s only one bad picture of an indigosnake... At the time I wasn�t much interested in colubrids, I preferred boids mostly... though I had a pair of sirtalis a year or so. The indigo was just only a black colubrid to me.

A while ago I found a swedish reptile forum and a guy said that he got a pair of Drymarchon corais couperi and I got curious, what kind of snake is that, I wondered...

Searching the web for som pics of Drymarchon... Ok, it�s the indigosnake he has, but shouldn�t they be all black, hrm? More surfing... Alright, there are different kind of phases... Hm, but I think the all black is more beutiful, why haven�t I thought about the indigosnake earlier, I thought.

Eventually, I came here to the kingsnake.com portal and found Fonzarellas pics of his Raven and I was lost! Got to have one!

Went through indigosnakes.com and found some caresheets from Doug Taylor. But I missed the snakes...

I advertised every day for a month or more at the largest reptile forum of Sweden and asked for help but nothing... More surfing and I mailed Juergen Schultz in Germany and he had some suggestions... Going to Germany for a snake is quite an undertaking, I thought. Besides, there was no available babies until the late summer this year. But I was, and I am, obsessed, got to have one!

Found UK Herpbreed and they got a male yearling left, I booked it! And they were going to the expo at Hamm in Germany, and now was I. Rent a car and found some freinds to go with...

Today I got a couperi male from Dave Appleton in England and, surprisingly, two nice females from a swedish guy who was going abroad for a while. All three are yearlings, the male is red phased and the females are almost all black! The male is a bit frustrated, at first, when I pick him up and he is not that easy feeder as the females are, but I love them all! This noon I was basking them out in the sun and they seemed to like it, I did it however!

Now I have a question. Have them in plastic boxes and I like to give them more space later on as they grow... I have an idea of connecting two boxes with plastic pipes(two boxes for one snake of course)for the space and for the possibility of having a clear distinction of the cold and the warm place i.e. I like to try to make a "gopher-tortoise-hole" in one and a "sunny" place in the other. So I like to know the diameter of a full grown couperi. What size of the pipe should I have?

Regards,

/Peter Andersson

Ps. Sorry Doug, I forgot to ask about the molesnake when I met Dave, was too excited to get my male to think of anything else! =)

Follow Ups:

Peter...No Mole Snake...Your Killing Me!! Doug T 04/12/02 (0)
Re: Diameter of an adult couperi? David 04/12/02 (3)
- Re: Thank you, Doug and David for your comments! [n/p] Peter Andersson 04/12/02 (0)
- Do you mean centimeters? Scott Garrett 04/12/02 (1)
  - Or inches? Beatrice Nichols 04/12/02 (0)

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: Hi everyone, hi Doug and hi Fonzerella! : I�m new to this forum and this is my first message. I�m a 36 years old guy from Sweden.I have had some experience of snakes and stuff since I was a teenager... I had break for several years and now I been herping for three years. : Have some snake books bought in the eighties and there�s only one bad picture of an indigosnake... At the time I wasn�t much interested in colubrids, I preferred boids mostly... though I had a pair of sirtalis a year or so. The indigo was just only a black colubrid to me. : A while ago I found a swedish reptile forum and a guy said that he got a pair of Drymarchon corais couperi and I got curious, what kind of snake is that, I wondered... : Searching the web for som pics of Drymarchon... Ok, it�s the indigosnake he has, but shouldn�t they be all black, hrm? More surfing... Alright, there are different kind of phases... Hm, but I think the all black is more beutiful, why haven�t I thought about the indigosnake earlier, I thought. : Eventually, I came here to the kingsnake.com portal and found Fonzarellas pics of his Raven and I was lost! Got to have one! : Went through indigosnakes.com and found some caresheets from Doug Taylor. But I missed the snakes... : I advertised every day for a month or more at the largest reptile forum of Sweden and asked for help but nothing... More surfing and I mailed Juergen Schultz in Germany and he had some suggestions... Going to Germany for a snake is quite an undertaking, I thought. Besides, there was no available babies until the late summer this year. But I was, and I am, obsessed, got to have one! : Found UK Herpbreed and they got a male yearling left, I booked it! And they were going to the expo at Hamm in Germany, and now was I. Rent a car and found some freinds to go with... : Today I got a couperi male from Dave Appleton in England and, surprisingly, two nice females from a swedish guy who was going abroad for a while. All three are yearlings, the male is red phased and the females are almost all black! The male is a bit frustrated, at first, when I pick him up and he is not that easy feeder as the females are, but I love them all! This noon I was basking them out in the sun and they seemed to like it, I did it however! : Now I have a question. Have them in plastic boxes and I like to give them more space later on as they grow... I have an idea of connecting two boxes with plastic pipes(two boxes for one snake of course)for the space and for the possibility of having a clear distinction of the cold and the warm place i.e. I like to try to make a "gopher-tortoise-hole" in one and a "sunny" place in the other. So I like to know the diameter of a full grown couperi. What size of the pipe should I have? : Regards, : /Peter Andersson : Ps. Sorry Doug, I forgot to ask about the molesnake when I met Dave, was too excited to get my male to think of anything else! =)

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