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Not to be insanely annoying but can you safely house a male and a female GTP together?

I'm thinking about moving my Ball to a 20G L and getting a pair of GTP to go into my 70G Oceanic Tank (man these tanks are great)...

70G should be big enough but what other issues arise? Do GTP have canabalistic tendencies? Teenage (early) pregnancy issues?

Who are the top three breeders and good caresheets?

thanks everyone

Ideally, they should not be kept together, it is however possible but you have to separate them for feeding. Keeping them together makes husbandry difficult, increases the risk of diseases and increase the risk of injury. They will probably not attack each other (although that has been described for males) but if one smells like mouse and the other is hungry, you may end up with a bad situation, or if one eats faster than the other and go for an other meal...
As far as housing chondro, aquariums (I suppose that it is what you are referring to in your post) do not make the best housing, they are difficult to heat, ventilate and keep humidity. Most of them are ventilated on the top and all the humidity escapes with the heat. I would recommend that you read some of the caresheet at www.chondroweb.com, you will find there the most comprehensive ones. You may also want to consider getting Greg Maxwell's book on chondro before actually getting your chondros.
as far as recommending the top 3 breeders I think that would be very unfair to the others...top three in relation to what? Are you looking for a 450$ chondro, a 1500$ chondro...check out the different forums, many breeders participate regularly in those forums, ...

I understand the husbandry changes that are associated with housing snakes together, mainly the feeding them separately aspect. Is it possible to remove the GTP's during feeding time so that each can be fed separately, safely in containers, allowed to cool down then put back together under close watch.

The acquarium I'm referring to is not just another tank, it's the Oceanic tank with 2 side vents on each side and 6 back vents, all can be closed with caps. The top is 3 sections, 2 are glass, one is screen top which can also be closed to maintain humidity. Those Oceanic tanks are sweet.

Thanks for the info, already checked out allchrondros.com

Although I can't recommend to put 2 snakes together, before you do, make sure you consider how you will separate them when feeding time comes...separating GTP is not like picking up a corn snake and putting it in a different box...when feeding time comes, most GTP will strike at everything that moves, trying to get them off their branch is sometimes a pain (especially if you get bitten), even during the day. I have sometimes spent more than 30 min trying to get a GTP off his branch...Furthermore, snakes are not social animals...I would keep them separate unless you are trying to pair them for breeding.