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i was reading a care sheet(forgot by who) and he was saying that he had housed his carpet pythons together there entire lives from baby to adults and they were a breeding pair.

my question is this correct, i thought it wasn't a good idea to house snakes together because one could be submissive and the other would take all the good basking site, hides etc.

has anyone ever house there carpet together for their entire lives?
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On occasion, I have housed mating pairs for 6 months at a time, but the feeeding issues always comes up that during feeding, it's difficult to monitor more than one snake in a cage at a time.
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I wouldn't think it is a good idea unless you are breeding them. Of course you know this but snakes, like most other reptiles, are not social animals. I am no expert (not even owning my snake yet) but I think one will dominate the other and get the better spots in the cage.

haveing kept snakes most of my life, venomous up till the last 4 yrs or so. i can say keeping multiple snakes per cage is a bad idea if for no other reason than the feeding issues already brought up and beaten to death here. also i remember reading some yrs ago that if you keep a pair together they may not breed because they spend so much time together they get used to each other and don't respond the way they should.

also think of this lets say you get a pair jcp's from a breeder as adults and they are not friendly and very aggressive in the cage. could you imagine having to dodge 2 snakes trying to bite you.

and before i get flamed it could just as easily be a ratsnake. rather than a jcp. just saying dodging 1 head is enough for me personally
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I have one breeding pair that spends a lot of time together. Good basking spots are not a problem most of the time because they spend a lot of time curled up together under the basking light. Feeding is a pain though. I have to separate them out into separate sweater boxes for feeding. The only time that they are not happily curled up together is when they are all done with their mating. Then, they go to separate corners and I know at that time that it would be better to get him into his own enclosure.

This has worked generally well for me.