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hi everybody! just discovered this forum, and i've been enjoying reading through it.

i'm curious if anybody houses more than one brb in a single enclosure. if so, how big per snake? are they all the same size? and did you introduce them at the same time?

I raised up my pair of brazilians together for their first two years, only seperated them to keep them from breeding too early. I bought them as a pair and introduced them at the same time. There is nothing wrong with it, but I think it is easier to keep track of feeding and other husbandy aspects if they are housed seperatly. Either way, I beleive you should never feed snakes that are housed together in their enclosure, as they may try to eat the same prey item, (I had a pair of baby corns do this when I first got into reptiles, and one almost ate the other) so I always feed them in seperate containers.

As far as size, I kept them in a 18x18x24 exo-terra when they were babies, then moved them to a 20 gal long and eventually to a custom 4*3*2 glass enclosure before moving them to indivdual 4x2x2 wood enclosures because the glass tanks don't hold humidity worth a darn and are harder to keep the temps consistant.

Hope that helps.

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Mike

1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.1 Peruvian Rainbow Boas
1.1 Argentine Rainbow Boas
1.1 Guyanan Rainbow Boas
1.1 Columbian Rainbow Boas
2.2 BCI
6.7 Corn Snakes
female Black Throat Monitor
too many geckos to count

Mike pretty much covered it all just want to reinforce some points....

They can be kept together most of the time without any problems. BUT, you should be prepared to seperate if any problems occur.

Housed together will be harder to keep track of individual detials like shed records. And if one gets sick or regurges which one was it, and will the other one catch whatever?

Lastly, if kept together, go big so they can each find seperate hiding spots. Paul B. has a huge naturalistic cage he houses several in. But it's so large they can each go to a different spot if they so desire.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Thanks for the responses! I think I'll try to build two separate cages that can join up.