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RE: enclosure question

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Posted by: monremonda at Fri Aug 21 11:22:25 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by monremonda ]  
   

I raised up my pair of brazilians together for their first two years, only seperated them to keep them from breeding too early. I bought them as a pair and introduced them at the same time. There is nothing wrong with it, but I think it is easier to keep track of feeding and other husbandy aspects if they are housed seperatly. Either way, I beleive you should never feed snakes that are housed together in their enclosure, as they may try to eat the same prey item, (I had a pair of baby corns do this when I first got into reptiles, and one almost ate the other) so I always feed them in seperate containers.

As far as size, I kept them in a 18x18x24 exo-terra when they were babies, then moved them to a 20 gal long and eventually to a custom 4*3*2 glass enclosure before moving them to indivdual 4x2x2 wood enclosures because the glass tanks don't hold humidity worth a darn and are harder to keep the temps consistant.

Hope that helps.


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Mike

1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.1 Peruvian Rainbow Boas
1.1 Argentine Rainbow Boas
1.1 Guyanan Rainbow Boas
1.1 Columbian Rainbow Boas
2.2 BCI
6.7 Corn Snakes
female Black Throat Monitor
too many geckos to count


   

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