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caz223
at Fri Sep 28 15:03:56 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by caz223 ]
I'm FAR from an expert in corn snakes in general or this topic specifically, but I'd like to add my two pesos based on what I've seen.
There are some very good reasons to house individually, including preventing group infections or infestations, identifying individuals who have succumbed to illness, etc.
I'd like to add at least one.
I thought it would be cool to have multiple snakes in one tank, and did the research, as I couldn't keep my kings together long term, for fear of the one fat snake syndrome.
Keeping multiple examples together lessens the personal attention each one gets, esp. if they are all the same morph, size and are similar in their general appearance.
It took one of my corns having a retained tail shed and losing the last 1/4" of tail to black gangrene to drive home the fact that I wasn't getting enough enjoyment out of ALL of them to hold them individually. If that corn was housed individually, I certainly would have noticed his condition before he was forced to endure the hardship of gangrene. He's fine now, BTW, but that's not the point.
That won't happen again, not to my snakes.
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RE: I'm strongly ambivalent - caz223, Fri Sep 28 15:03:56 2007