A newly purchased Ball Python should, ideally, be housed separately from the rest of your collection for at least three months to prevent infection of any diseases it may carry.

In which case, if you are going to house it separately to prevent infection, then you will already have a decent set up for it, so why house it with another snake.

Finally, when you house two snakes together, a bunch of problems can arise that you will always have to keep an eye out for. You find an unusual dropping that may indicate illness, which snake does it belong to? Are you going to provide large enough warm and cool places that both snakes can occupy it at once? Ball pythons being solitary creatures can experience a variety of dominance problems. Even similarly sized snakes can result in a submissive, fasting individual.

Long story short: They probably won't kill/eat or otherwise damage one another. If you can meet the entire environmental needs of BOTH snakes, then housing them together is certainly feasible.
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.0 Normals, 1.0 Thayeri, 0.1 Thayeri X Alterna, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

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