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Hi,

I will be adding a pair of Bull Snakes to my collection very soon and had a question. I've only kept Kingsnakes before, and I know that they are all cannibals. Do I have to worry about that with Pits? I will still keeping them in separate tubs, but just wanted to know.

Thanks for your time!
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As far as Kingsnakes go, no, not cannibalistic, but really, any snake CAN be cannibalistic, in the corn snake forum, there is a post of a guy who had a corn snake, eat another corn snake.

I personally have had a ribbon snake eat another ribbon snake, and have had one of my corns latch on and begin to wrap up one of my other corns that i had together... most people would say they are fine, and in most cases are, but i myself will never house anything together again. My thoughts...
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I house two of mine together. Make sure to seperate them for feeding and watch closely when you reintroduce them again. As long as they are the same size it shouldn't be a problem. Once after feeding time one grabbed the other and started to constrict but it let go immediatly when, I assume, it realized what it was doing.

They SHOULD be fine together. I would seperate mine if I had more space

The problem is not if they eat each other but rather the stress they cause to one another and the fact that they will pass parasites back and forth to each other. Also one snake may not bask when it should because of the other snake and in turn lower it own immune system. Two males can beat each other up in the breedng season. The fact is, they can eat each other at any time as can any snake. There was a pic of a 3.5-4 ft racer trying to eat a 3.5-4ft canebreak rattler. Now if you asked if that can happen you would hear no but a pic is worth a thousand words.

In other words there are bigger problems than getting eaten for any snake caged with another snake.

Later Jason