The practice is generally frowned upon due to health issues with the animals. If one is sick, possibility of spreading the illness or parasites to the cage mates. Also, the situation of stress on the animals. Snakes are normally not social in nature except during breeding season. True, multiple snakes in nature will make use of suitable hiding spots, hibernaculum, etc., but as a rule, they dont hang out together for companionship. I think you could house two TRATs together as long as the enclosure was large enough for them to be able to get away from each other. It should provide enough hide and basking areas for them to not have to be in contact constantly. Just monitor them. Two males may get aggressive towards each other during breeding season. Male and female could lead to unexpected breedings. There are recent posts of folks who were housing male and female snakes together and wound up with unexpected eggs - Duhh!!! Even two subspecies of ratsnakes like a texas and yellow housed together could produce babies if one male and one female. So, if your interest is NOT breeding, house them separately.

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• Keeping two rats in same cage - calebjg, Fri Apr 30 15:33:01 2010
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