I just went to the Expo and picked up two albino nelsons. Can they be housed together or are they like King Snakes. Thanks for the help
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kilo
Sep 10, 2006 06:00 PM
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HerperHelmz
Sep 10, 2006 11:00 PM
They are best kept seperate. I'll name 2 reasons why...
1) You can monitor their feeding more. And keep better feeding records.
2) Feeding accidents(like one eating another) are more likely to happen if they are housed together. Like if one snake is still hungry after feeding, and the other one moves, and the scent of mice is still in the air, that could trigger a feeding response/attack.
That's only 2 simple ones... There are also reasons like, diseases.
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azhael
Sep 11, 2006 06:30 AM
i would never house two snakes together....very specially milksnakes.
They are snake eaters(among other preys) and they can eat each other if they feel like.
I´ve seen kingsnakes and milksnakes housed together succesfully(the main reason is that they all were chubos....they wouldn´t eat each other cause they were always full)....but it definitely is not a good idea...
apart from cannibalism...they could fight for food...for heating places or hides....
Keeping them together will only stress them as they´ll have to compete for space.
The most important fact though is that if one becomes ill.....the other will...housing them separately you can prevent all these things.
