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Is it ok to house ball and boa hatchlings together in a hatchling rack? Not in the same tubs, but in the same rack.
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I don't see why not,so long as the temps and humidity are right for each species.
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My menagerie
2.2 Ball Pythons (expecting eggs!) 1.1 Amazon Tree Boa 1.0 Corn Snake (and 9 eggs) 1.0 Dumeril's Boa 2.1.10 Bearded Dragons 2.1.2 Crested Geckos (and 4 eggs!) 1.1.4 Eastern Box Turtles (eggs?)1.0 Northern Mockingbird 0.3 Chickens 2.0 Cats 1.1 Ferrets plus lots of mice and feeder insects and 3 Black Rat snake eggs

I don't know if I would have them that close. I'm not completely sure, but I think there is a disease that boas can give ball pythons.
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If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

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That disease would be IBD...
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I don't see any problems with it...I have all my hatchlings in the same rack! The individual racks are not connected to each other, so IBD would spread just as quickly if they were in the same rack as if they were in two racks next to each other.
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Thanks,
Amy

My Boids

It really depends on how IBD is transmitted... is it airborne or transmitted by bodily fluids? At the least I would try to keep the boas' water dishes separate from the pythons'.
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