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Any reason why I shouldn't do that?

1) Requirements. Since when are corns from Africa? Since when are balls from the south eastern US.
2)Not only do they have somewhat different climate conditions, they have different bacteria, protozoans, ect. I would hesitate to keep two corns or balls together, and I would not even consider keeping two of different species together. And the number one reason in my book...mites.

If you are doing it to just save money, I suggest you find them a new home. Just get them their own cages if you want or have the snakes, and you want them to stay healthy.
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Of course I want to save money, but I'll do anything I can to keep my snakes healthy and happy. I just thought they would both need to be kept at about 80 degrees so it wouldn't be unreasonable to keep them together. I can see why they would have different requirements but you didn't point out any specific requirements so I still don't know anything more than I knew before I posted this. I haven't done a ton of research, but corns and balls don't look like they need very different setups.

I thought balls needed to be considerably warmer than 80 degrees. They also need much higher humidity than a corn.
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"they have different bacteria, protozoans, ...And the number one reason in my book...mites."

I agree that snakes should not be housed together except for breeding. But, is having them in different enclosures really going to prevent the spread of bacteria? I know it won't stop the spread of mites.
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If you keep them in totally different rooms or at least at extreme opposites of a room for a quarantine, which should be done with any new animal IMO, it should help prevent any problems from spreading through a collection. It is what I do at least, and I can not think of any problems I have had.
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"Since when" are mites "the number one reason"?

First of all, I said in my book. Therefore, it is my opinion. I can think of nothing worse than an outbreak of mites in my collection. So stressful for me, especially when you have a lot of snakes. And they can spread like wildfire.
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Andy Maddox
AIM: SurfAndSkimTx04
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Houston Herp Key
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Burgundy baby, With your blue eyed soul, You play the hits and I'm on that roll, Capricorn sister, Freddie Mercury, Jupiter Child cry

Now that I think about it the problem isn't really money, I already have enough cages. I just don't have that much space in my house.

I have a ball python and a cornsnake and I keep them separately.

There is one major difference between their setups: the humidity. For the ball python in order for it to shed its skin properly the humidity has to be much much higher than that of the cornsnake. Being realistic, I don't see how mites come into the equation if neither of them have mites in the first place. I'd personally be worried about them attacking each other, although I don't know if they'd do that.

Will too much humidity hurt the corn snake?

I have two medium sized water bowls inside my ball python's vivarium. When I had just one in there she wouldn't shed properly.

I don't think the extra humidity would be detrimental to a cornsnake, but it still doesn't seem like a good idea to put a corn and a ball together. If you do do it anyway, let me know if works out ok!