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i hear people all the time telling me how they house different constrictors together. every time i ask what kinds of reptiles i can safley house together, i get told my combo ideas are bad, ther would be fighting about food, space, and could kill, even eat each other. i know large constrictors arn't going to eat each other. but are those combinations safe? (the last time i heard a snake combo, a guy have a retic w/a red tail and a burn and a ball and maybe something else)

Retics get twice as big as redtails. Burms get so much bigger than balls that a burm would crush a ball by accidentally sitting on it. I think for safety's sake, the giant constrictors, retics and burms, should be housed singly just so you don't have to worry about two of them at once, especially when feeding. They can and do hurt people badly.

i agree with that........for starters i would not recomend mixing old and new world species, i have seen and delt with many cases where people have tried it and most end badly...one case sticks in my mind where someone kept a ball python with a red tailed boa..the result ended with the ball python dieing from some form of nuralodgical problem caused by stress.....
the same person didnt learn from that and tried keeping a burm with the same boas..result the same....he has since given up keeping reptiles now ...thank god.
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I bet a dollar the boas were carrying IBD, takes longer to kill boas than pythons. God help whoever got the boas from him.

no not at all they were tested by vet.........turns out the only conclusion we could come to was stress related.he actuly had two balls with them ,one of which i still have and its doing fine 3 years on.......
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no way the way no limit the limit

Oh, ok. Well, that's 'good', I guess. You think this guy would have learned, though. Ah well... we all have stories like that too, how sad.

yes it is sad some people just dont learn.anyway good guess my first thoughts were IBD and i was quite sure about it....
shows we all can be wronge somtimes.lol
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no way the way no limit the limit