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What are acceptable weights for male and female corns to breed?

is there a problem with housing multiple corns together? if there are both sexes in one cage, will it affect their breeding when the season comes?

>>What are acceptable weights for male and female corns to breed?
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>>is there a problem with housing multiple corns together? if there are both sexes in one cage, will it affect their breeding when the season comes?

Generally the female should be around 300g. Smaller weights risk eggbinding. The male should be big enough that he knows what to do with the female.

As for housing both sexes together, I can almost guarantee you that they'll breed well before the female is a good enough size, and without brumating. Heck, they might even breed at an entirely wrong time of year too. If you don't want to be posting "HELP! My snakes bred and the female's only 100g!" type posts, house them separately until the female's big enough to handle eggs, regardless of season. Don't even set them in the same tub together briefly. (I know someone who almost lost a female due to eggbinding from a breeding that happened while she was setting up a group photograph.)

There are plenty of other stock reasons not to house two snakes together in general, and if you ask on the main forum you'll get an earful, but the above is the direct answer to your question. Short and sweet: Don't house two snakes together, and if you do it anyway, don't house two snakes together of opposite genders unless they're both in good health and old enough to breed safely.

-Kat
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