other points for consideration :

If they are housed together and one gets sick, which one is it and is the other now sick as well?

I have seen pics of a baby BCI that ate not only a mouse but it's larger sibling who had also eatien it's own mouse. That's a total of one larger sibling and two mice, was not a pretty poic and the poster never replied as to the eventual outcome of the "winner" It may well have died from too large a meal.

Same can get stressed out from cage mate, your female is already more than aggressive enough. What if she got worse, or if the male was now agressive as well.

If kept together, very possible to have babies, but when??? Would you be ready to house possibly dozens of babies??


And of course the live prey issue, anything with teeth can and will bite. The rats will almost always lose, but they won't go without a fight, bighting anything they can. Including but not limited to:
eyes
tongue
head
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
10.22 BRB
10.15 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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