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to not house hatchling ATBs together?
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Jim Kuroski

Many problems can arise from housing them togetter in the same cage. One is record keeping, you will have a very hard time telling who is who, its impossible to do deficaion records, and any other documutation on the snake alone is very hard to do with 5 others that look the same. The other big problem is parasites, not all of your litter is going to be nice and healthy, you are going to get some sick ones, this is normal. Housing them all togetter will cause sickness to spread like a wildfire. Also feeding is a chalenge, you may have a few domonit feeders and a few that are picky and maybe one that wont eat at all. The doment ones will eat as soon as you feed them, the picky ones will take a little time to find the pink then grab it, and lasty the one that wont eat will not even have a chance. Inless you are watching you also dont know how ate and who dident. Also you can do any kind of freeding tricks, like setting a pink right infront of a non-eater at night works allot of times, you cant do this with a few cage mates hanging around. Any how, I housed all mine togetter when I bred my ATBs for the first time, bismisake, one regurged its meal and they all started doing it inless then one week. I house all my neonates and adults in there own cages.
Any how.
Good luck.
Philip
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1.1.1 amazon tree boas
0.1.2 normal corn snake
1.0.3 snow corn
0.0.3 amelanistic corns
0.0.2 anerythristic corns
1.1 goins king snakes
0.1 argentine boa
0.1.1 red tail boa
0.0.1 Coastal carpet python
0.0.1 Ball python
0.1 columbian rainbow boa
0.0.1 Black rat snake
0.0.2 eastern garter snakes
0.1 Speculated king snake
0.0.2 Red eared sliders
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1 gelding horse

I totally agree with what you said about record keeping. As for feeding I have housed juvis together before and separated to feed and had little problems. I just personally think that housing them together helps to calm them and get them used to movement. I thinking that there may be a risk of them eating eat other and that is why you stated in another post to separate. I had a litter of five last night and have separated them. Simply for the fact that I have three that are identical so as stated prior, record keeping would be hard. Just wondering what peoples feeling where on the matter, thanks.
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Jim Kuroski

I had a pair of juvies together and came home to find one of them dead. By the looks of the dead one it looked like the other had constricted it in the neck region. So I would never cage them together again.

Benson