I'm not sure you really need me to explain why. That's a pretty simple one. But anyway. . .



It isn't the same thing because once they're done breeding you separate them again, i.e. there's only a window of time in which your snakes are exposed to each other. That's important because that's one of only two times of year that a snake won't be stressed by being cooped up in a little space with another (hopefully) non-prey animal. Once that season is over, if they're still together it's back to the stress, which makes the animals less resistant to illness, more likely to go off feed, etc. Breeding can even be considered good for the snakes - some species go off feed in the breeding season because they're too intent on breeding. Meanwhile, keeping them together all year long stresses them all year long, exposes them to each others potential illnesses all year long, if one of them regurgitates you don't know which snake it was unless you happened to get lucky and see it, and on and on and on.

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