Even though many people do it successfully, housing snakes together is a major risk. Even when seperating the snakes to feed, upon placing them back in, there is much risk of rat smell still being on one of the snakes... leading to an attack and injury (possibly death).

I would suggest housing them all seperately A.S.A.P. When they are ready for breeding, put the male in with the appropriate female. I personally wouldnt house 1.2 together to breed... mainly due to the difficulty in seperating them all to feed. Secondly, I'm not sure how well that would work. Many believe the female boas need to be courted to stimulate ovulation and get other stuff in line. Will the male stick to the right female until the job is fully done, or will he just hop on whichever one he happens to land on? Dunno. Id nix out the extra problematic variables and just put 1.1 together for breeding.
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-Ryan Homsey

www.topnotchboas.com

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• keeping boas together - viperbitex, Tue Oct 24 13:13:09 2006
• Seperate Em' - RyanHomsey, Tue Oct 24 13:21:38 2006
• Yeah... - ChrisGilbert, Tue Oct 24 15:56:05 2006
• RE: Seperate Em' - viperbitex, Wed Oct 25 07:23:06 2006