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Jeff Clark
at Tue Aug 12 15:05:53 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Clark ]
Christine,
. I know there are many people who agree with your opinion on this. But!!! I have been keeping BRBs together in cages for a long time. My snakes are precious to me. I am very much interested in keeping them healthy and breeding for me year after year. They stay very healthy housed together. I do seperate them to feed and never have any agresssion between snakes. I used to do lots of snake hunting and many many times have found snakes together in prime hiding places. Here in the south it is common to find Yellow Ratsnakes piled together in the rafters of abandoned farm buildings. I tend to agree that snakes are generally solitary animals but when they find an ideal place to be they often share it with conspecifics.
YMMV,
Jeff
>>I think it's better to -not- keep your animals in the same cage. Snakes are solitary animals, and on top of that they are quite territorial. They should have their own enclosures that they do not have to share. It's also harder to monitor feeding, defecation, shed cycles etc. If one gets sick then the other will get sick. Some people do not encounter problems when housing snakes together, but I've also heard of snakes being fine together for awhile and then suddenly trying to kill each other when they headed for the water dish at the same time.
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>>Perhaps you should speak to your breeder about it too and get a more professional opinion than what I can provide.
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RE: Pair of BRB in one cage NOT OK - Jeff Clark, Tue Aug 12 15:05:53 2003