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I know this has been asked before, but I'm hoping for a different viewpoint... I have two 3.5" snappers... They used to be housed togeher when they were smaller, but one of them came down with tapeworms recently and I started housing them seperately, each in a 20 gallon tank. Nice little setup for each with adequate filtration. I plan on getting a 120 gallon tanks soon and making it into a snapper tank.

What are the possibilities of housing these two together for a while, if they have never shown aggression towards each other? I know they might change later on in age... but they have only bit each other once and that was because I fed them beefheart on the same side at the same time... I usually seperate them for feedings.

And do you all think a 120 is too big for two 4"s? What about a 75?
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Coastal Carpet Python 0.1
Albino Burm 0.1
Columbian RedTail 0.1
Kenyan Sand Boa 1.0
Common Snapping Turtle 1.1
RES 1.0

I myself wouldn't do but they could get along ok. I know of someone who house two 7-8'' female common together with no problems. My 5.6'' common is a 150 gallon rubbmaid stock tank with about 16'' of water he does just fine in it.
Xavier
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Leopard Geckos
1.1 Tangerine trempor albino
0.2 blizzards
1.1 Super Hypo Carrot tails (both Baldy)
1 amel corn snake

1.0.0 Common snapping turtle
0.1.0 Belize slider
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise
0.0.1 blackknobbed sawback
0.0.1 stripeneck musk
0.0.1 nothern DBT

I got a hatchling snapper and hatching painted, and kept them in the same enclosure now for 3 years. I have to be a little careful yet at feeding time, but otherwise so far it is going well.

When I first put them together I did have a "teaching opportunity" with the snapper. He is larger than the painted and saw the painted at food at first. I just watched and when she started after the painted I snapped her on the nose. It only took a few times, and she decided the painted wasn't food after all!

You do have to be sure the enclosure is big enough so both turtles have plenty of room.

Good luck.