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I currently own one female western hognose that I bought this summer. This weekend, I am adopting two more juvenile western hognose snakes. As long as the snakes are of similar size, would there be a problem with me housing all three snakes together? Any advice would be great.

I would not recommend you house hognose together as they are known to be cannibals.
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Louie

I wasn't familiar with hogs having the reputation of being cannibals, although I guess all snakes have the potential, but I would warn against it. Diseases can spread to collection, or mites, or you could run into other problems like picky eaters. If you do decide make sure you feed in seperate houses

I have a personal experience with western hogs biting each other.
I had a pair of westerns (about the same size)together and I had fed about 4 days before this, so I assume it was not a feed response. One snake bit the other and started chewing like it wanted to swallow it. I saw it just in time (I thought) and put them under cold water and the snake released. The 2nd day after the bite the snake that was bit died.
I now separate all snakes.
Nick

Nick's experience typifies what has been posted on here multiples times about cannibalism. I would LOVE to keep my hogs together, but it's just not worth it. I see nothing wrong with letting them "play" together while supervised, but keeping them together would be reckless.
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