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We're getting a BP soon, and we were planning on keeping it in our bedroom for the quarantine period, but afterward, we were going to move it into the same room as our leopard geckos. (And yes, we know to wash with antibacterial soap before and after handling each critter.) But I just read on another post that the smell of the leos could drive the BP nuts... Is that true? The BP and the leos would be on opposite sides of the room and wouldn't be able to see each other (I'd say probably 10-15' apart). The leos and their cage have no noticible smell, but of course, I'm only human

-Ifni

But I'm not keeping my snake in the same room with my leos (of course, I have over 20 leos so...). I am just assuming that with the python's keen sense of smell that it might not be a good idea. I could be wrong though so I would ask someone who has tried it and see what their outcome was.

I keep my Leopard geckos and Ball Pythons right next to each other. No problems here.

Mark

whew, great, thank you *very* much

Same here---I keep about 200-300 leopard geckos and 16 Balls all in the same room. No problems that I can see. The balls are all eating/growing great. Sounds like another unproven wive's tale.

Rodney

I keep a pair of sugar gliders in the same room as my ball pythons - you'd think for sure that they would excite the pythons, but the balls only give an occasional sniff in their direction. If small, furry, mouse-like animals don't worry the balls, I don't think leopard geckos will!

I think reptiles pretty much get used to ambient smells.
I have a brazillian short-tailed possum, and one of its predators in the wild, a brazillian rainbow boa in the same room. They seem just fine .
Just don't forget to wash your hands in-between!

I told my husband last night that I was concerned about this, and had posted the question, and fortunately it was looking like it wasn't going to be a problem to keep the Ball and the Leos together.
He was silent for a moment, probably giving me time to catch my error, but being the hopeless airhead that I am, of course I didn't. While I sat there so proud of myself for how throroughly I'd been researching everything, he said: "Honey, do you happen to remember *where* we are getting the snake from?"
"The pet store," I chirped, thinking absolutely nothing of it until about half a second later when my face froze in horror as realization hit me like a cinderblock to the back of the head, thinking back to our recent visit to the pet store, and how the BP's cage was surrounded by the cages of other reptiles, including, of course, the leopard geckos.

Well, I've learned my lesson. Take all my questions to the guy who has retained at least a little common sense (not to mention sanity), before bringing them here and making a fool of myself. At least he didn't razz on me *too* hard for my silly mistake, hehe.

-Ifni

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