I wrote a long post a little bit down and since I didn't want to rewrite it so I copied it and posted it for you. A little bit is off topic but it mainly covers everything that you should know about about housing multiple snakes together.
First off I will start out by saying that although it is done quite often it is strongly discouraged to house multiple snakes together. If one snakes get sicks or contracts some sort of parasites than the likelyhood that the healthy snake will contract the illness is increased dramatically if they are housed together.
Feeding your snakes becomes a whole ordeal. you can not safely feed your snakes within their enclosure because of the possibility of both snakes going after the same prey item. This means that you have to feed outside of the enclosure. This is extremely stressfull to the snake and can result in regurgitation. Also, it means that you, the keeper, must make contact with the snakes before and after they eat. Most snakes remain in feeding mode for quite sometime after they eat and if you present yourself to the snake to relocate it back into its enclosure then you are eventually going to have an incident where the snake mistakes you for a prey item and then you have a situation on hand that could be disasterous.
Even if you successfully feed and relocate the snakes back into their enclosures there is still one more disasterous situation that can arise. I used to house multiple snakes in the same enclosure until I had the following scenerio happen. Both snakes are back in there cage. They have both been fed and one smells the prey item on the skin of the other one. It strikes and starts to constrict the other. Now you have a situation where you as the keeper once again must put yourself into a less than desirable situation to remove the sttacking snake form the other one. let me tell you it is not a pleasant situation even when they are relatively small.
You also need to check with your dorm rules because I can almost guarentee that they will not allow you to maintain pythons within the dorms. If you plan on doing it sneakily you will get caught and they more than likely will confiscate the snakes and that just puts another bad blurp against all the herpers.
And finally you are living in a fantasy world if you think you can housea single burmese python, let alone two, in a aquarium. each snake will require atleast a 6'x2' cage by the time they are 12 to 18 months old. They are not fish and therefore should not be housed in aquariums. Either find someother way to house them or do yourself and the snakes a favor and give them to someone that can give them the proper care that they need. Todd
Sorry it is so long but I hope it helps you understand the seriousness of housing multiple snakes together. Todd
