By keeping them apart, you making everything you do harder. Its causing you to take up more space, its causing you more work, because your working against the normal function of the snakes.



The best way to keep pairs, colonies, groups of reptiles is to raise them together. Period.



The next best way is to winter them together if they have not been raised together.



If neither of those work and you have a problem individual, then you treat that one the way your doing now.



What is funny is, keeping them in groups takes less space then keeping them one in a cage. How funny is that.



Of course that assumes you are not keeping them cramped in a box that only has enough body space for one individual. In that case, your not keeping them in a cage, your keeping them stuck in their hide box.



About more hides and stuff, well thats actually silly. How you can tell your snakes are bonded is, they are always together, even if they have choices where they can be apart. If they stay on opposite sides of the cage, that is a sign they do not get along.



My three pairs of pits. All three pairs are bonded, nearly always together. They have big habitats, but choose the same hides. etc.



09 Pacifics



09 bulls



08 Pacifics

I post these pictures to show that I am not against the idea of housing snakes together, I do feed them separately.



Now that it is getting cooler and my pyros are not in feeding mode anymore, I will try putting my pyros together in trios (one male to two females. The reason for trios is that is the ratio of males to females I have, and size wise works out). If they show signs that they are bonding then I will consider this venture a success. They are currently in 105 qt sterilite tubs, which seems quite a large space for the small pyros. So I don't think there will be a danger of overcrowding. During feeding season I do offer food probably more often than most keepers, so the snakes don't have to get too hungry.



I really appreciate your input, Thank you very much. I do believe I am grokking the concept now.

Anybody who feels I am jumping out of the plane without a properly packed chute, by all means speak up! LOL!
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Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

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