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RE: Blue Beauty question?

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Posted by: Redmoon at Mon Nov 17 17:19:52 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Redmoon ]  
   

I agree with colubridman. Not a good idea. That's a nice sized cage, but that's still a lot of snakes in one cage. I regularly house pairs of snakes together, even though most people recommend against it and have never had a problem- in general, I don't have an issue with housing a couple animals of the same/similar species together. but, you're going to be putting something that's from an entirely different part of the world in with North American rat snakes, and I think that could be an issue.

Blue beauties don't like warmth the way rat snakes do. With the obsoletas & corn there you're talking very similar environments, with overlapping in habitat in the wild. But blue beauties are normally kept at room temp, with just a hot spot, correct? I know I keep my Taiwan beauty at room temp with a small heat pad at one end of the cage to help him warm up to digest food, and that's it. . . A lot of beauty snakes get irritable when kept too warm.

And as colubridman said, you're talking about a LOT of snakes in a small area. It's a decent size cage, but I really don't think I'd put 4 snakes in it. Possibly a group of the same species, but definitely not 4 mixed species.


Ronnie Nocera

   

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