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I have a female and male coastal, both bought the same time two differen't parents and obviously different clutches. There are two completely different sizes apporaching the two year old mark. Now for my question, I bought these the same time and have housed them together but my fear was underage breeding and killing the female so i separated them and the male has been jumpy, and edgy since (he has only bitten me twice both times i have done something worthy of being bitten, in the past week he has tried to slaughter me he has bit me once or attempted to bite me at least 20 or so times, is this stress due to the removal of the female? The other thing i recently added new cage items to his cage, new logs, some moss for humidity, bigger water bowl and bigger vines, he has been more hostile with these additions when should or i can i expect him to settle down??

Any thoughts or ideas please post here and e-mail me thank you.
Pat

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Worldsocold06@yahoo.com

I only have one carpet... but my other snakes tend to do the same thing. If I keep them together for awhile, they don't really like to be seperated. Just give it a little time, patience, and handling and the problems should go away.

Better to recieve a few bites than to have your female die from egg binding.
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Currently have:
1.0 Amelanistic Corn Snake
0.1 Antherystic Corn Snake
1.0 Eastern Fox Snake
1.0 Jungle Carpet Python
0.1 Leucistic Texas Ratsnake
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the aggression is more likely related to a new cage and new cage items and not the being away from the other snake. snakes in general (there are always exceptions - hibernation, mass courting, and other things) are solitary and territorial animals, just 2 of the many reasons you always see people telling you to house snakes seperately (the issue of defecation records and parasite/disease transmission are other big concerns too, more so than egg binding). that said, snakes also react, and sometimes in unexpected ways, to new items and new cages, how would you react if your territory (home) was suddenly all new and smelled and looked very different from what youve become very accustomed to? remember, just because snakes are always ontop of each other it doesnt mean they like each other, its almost always an issue of, its the best spot in the cage to be. good luck,

J
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Jaymz
"got a bowlin ball in my stomache, got a desert in my mouth. figures that my courage would choose to sell out now..."

I see, I was more concerned with egg binding then anything else. I can careless about aggression it was kind of expected from the new cage items it just happend that i had seperated them, its just odd for me to see this snake I bought as a baby two years ago try and bite me, and when he does bite me he lets go right away, oh well.

Thanks Pat