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Could you house 1.1 burms together? I refuse to house my BPs together as well as I would not house other snakes together, but when I get my Brums (a ways down the road, next year at the soonest) I would just rather make a HUGE enclosure for them both instead of 2 huge enclosures for them. Will they breed if raised toghther? I know BPs have a tendacy to not breed if raised together. I will be breeding them eventually, but I will be getting them as hatchlings and raising them from there. I was planning on if I DO house them together, I would be building an adition on my house that is 10'x10' and for the water I was thinking of installing a bath tub, easy to drain, and I can get room temp water instead of hose water which would be FREEZING, and it would be nearly impossible in the winter w/o a bath. Do you see any problems with this? I planned on attaching the room to the house with a patio sliding glass door with some small windows for viewing. I was going to make the floor linolioum and have it go 6" up the wall. The only thing that will change if I house them seperatly is it will be 2 seprate enclosures with different dementions, but I would really like to house them together if possible. Thanks in advance! Krystal
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I am not a big advocate of housing large burms together simply because it greatly increases the chances for something to go wrong. If you have never maintained a 18' burm by itself much less with a "roomate" you will be in for quite a chore. But, if you are determined to keep them together, realizing that you probably won't be as successful in terms of breeding, here are a few considerations:

- have a divider that will allow you to partition the snakes from each other during feeding and incorporate some sort of feeding door in each partitioned area. This is where I have my biggest concerns in keeping two large burms together (and I realize that these are hatchlings but its time to start planning).
- Provide multiple basking sites to prevent competition for optimal basking areas which can lead to stress.
- Be prepared for a maintenance nightmare....cleaning up a big pile of poop from a single burm is no big deal....cleaning up two big piles and dousings of uric acid is like increasing your work and time ten fold.

There are other concerns but these are the highlights. If it were me, I would rather make two identical stacking cages that are half the height and keep the snakes singly; you will be glad that you did.

I am not a big advocate of housing large burms together simply because it greatly increases the chances for something to go wrong. If you have never maintained a 18' burm by itself much less with a "roomate" you will be in for quite a chore. But, if you are determined to keep them together, realizing that you probably won't be as successful in terms of breeding, here are a few considerations:

- have a divider that will allow you to partition the snakes from each other during feeding and incorporate some sort of feeding door in each partitioned area. This is where I have my biggest concerns in keeping two large burms together (and I realize that these are hatchlings but its time to start planning).
- Provide multiple basking sites to prevent competition for optimal basking areas which can lead to stress.
- Be prepared for a maintenance nightmare....cleaning up a big pile of poop from a single burm is no big deal....cleaning up two big piles and dousings of uric acid is like increasing your work and time ten fold.

There are other concerns but these are the highlights. If it were me, I would rather make two identical stacking cages that are half the height and keep the snakes singly; you will be glad that you did.