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PHLdyPayne
at Fri Jul 25 06:16:09 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHLdyPayne ]
I don't recommend housing any snake together, except baby garter snakes, they seem to like the company and stress if housed alone (or at least wandering garter snakes do, may not be same for all species of garter snakes. Friend of mine bred them some time ago).
For somebody fairly new at keeping snakes, definitely better to house separately. It is much easier to monitor health of the snakes. Who has shed, who has pooped, less risk of accidental biting of each other or worse, consumption of a cage mate. Even if fed in a separate container, the scent of the prey can be on the body of the snake and sometimes that is all it takes for a snake to strike their cage mate and proceed to constrict and/or swallow it. Then you may end up with one fat snake, or two dead snakes..
Except for breeding its best to keep them separated. ----- PHLdyPayne
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