With ringnecks you can't really feed them at different times...

Example 1.

You try to feed one snake, with both snakes in the enclosure. Who's to say the snake not being fed, won't try to eat anyways? Ultimately leading to a fight for food.

Example 2.

You take out the snake that is not feeding. And feed the other in the enclosure. And then place it's companion back in the enclosure after. Now it smells like the prey item in there. So, once again what if the snake that didn't eat, is hungry, it smells food, sees it's "friend" moving, thinks it's prey, there's another feeding accident.

Honestly.
I've kept a lot of ringneck snakes together.
With southern ringneck snakes, are basically the ONLY feeding accidents I have witnessed.
For some reason southern ringnecks are the sub-species that are always hungry, and anything that smells like prey, is prey.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
www.kingpinreptiles.com
^ Updated 11/29

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