Under ideal circumstances (very large Naturalistic enclosure), you "can", BUT it will present a multitude of new problems, chalanges, and risks for you to deal with. It is NOT practical, and NOT recommended at all. The fact that they are sympatric throughout much of their range and that they share the same habitat helps. However, there are venomous issues here that open up a whole new can of worms for you. If you do something like this you can never ever let your gaurd down when you go to maintain or handle your rosy because its cage mate is venomous. You also run the risk of the rosy getting "hit" by your Panimint when you hook your rosy to pull it out on the occasions when you need the rosy out. Think about it. Snakes learn very quickly to be expecting a meal when they see you approach the cage. How many times have you seen your snakes come right up to you as soon as that cage door opens? Would you dangle your finger in front of the hungry panimint during this special moment in time? I would hope not. Well, now you want to pull out your rosy. Common sense tells you that you need to hook the Rosy. So you do this while the Panimint is waiting with anticipation for a meal. Now you have the unnerving task of bringing the rosy right by the Panimint and subjecting it to a possible feeding response bite from your panimint. So now you must realize that every time you need to handle or maintain your rosy, you need to first hook the panimint and pull him out and place him in a safe box and latch it. Then you can pull out your rosy. So basically you have to go through all that hassle and undue stress to the panimint just to handle your Rosy Boa. Now You have the stress factor for each snake just having to live together that you now have to deal with. You have to consider health and contamination issues also. If one deficates, and you are not there to pull it out right away (after you have gone through the above mentioned procedure), you have a potential problem. Heaven forbid one of them go in the water bowl. When it is feeding time, back to the above mentioned procedure. You have to separate them. If one of them gets sick, you now have to consider that the other may be contaminated and that they may both need to be treated. However, you will need to quarantine them in seperate enclosures so as avoid infecting the one that is not showing any symptoms in case it is not sick. But still, you will need to watch for symptoms so it can be treated at that point if they do show up. You do not want to treat it until it shows symptoms because treating an healthy snake is also not good and is to be avoided. I can think of no pros here and I could list cons all day. Bottom line is it is not worth it, and I seriously recommend that you do not do this. Hope this helps.
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James Wilson
Pacific Coast Herpetological
www.pacificcoastherpetological.com

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