I don't see a reason to so emphatically deny bonding. I guess there are two warring sides, as it relates to captive herps. One is that bonding presents risks of cannabalism and potential sanitary risks of having more germs, germs from more sources and more contact with those germs. On the other side we have the belief that contact and interraction between individuals is natural and beneficial for the mental health of the snakes.

Personally I keep my snakes singly except for breeding but I recently purchased some large cages and I intend to set them up with various toys and use them as excercise pens and possibly to let multiple snakes associate under supervision. I don't intend to try to solve any riddles I just want to offer more to my snakes than they currently recieve. At the very least I think the excercise will help improve physical health so I don't really see any downside.
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