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right now i have a male about 2 ft long maybe a little smaller. i'm thinking of getting a female that is about 3ft. would i be able to house them together? or would problems come about? thanks for your help =)

Well there are three problems that I can see. The first is that you would need to quarantine your new girl for about 60 to 90 days any way to prevent the spread of disease.

Second, trying to feed them. Even if you put them in separate containers to feed them, babies may just become stressed because of the other snake being in the same cage with it and not want to eat. Then you might have one snake smelling like mouse and one snake bites the other.

The third is they are keep together long enough for them to start with the birds and bees thing, hint, hint, the male might try breeding her at way to young of an age. Neither would no better and it would not be healthy for you girl.

There are just way to many problems that you can run into off the top of my head.

Jeff
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Jeff
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A few years ago I acquired two baby boas from the same litter. I figured they were siblings and that there shouldn't be any problems housing them together temporarily. I seperated them when they got fed, and then they were placed back together in their communal quarters. Before long one started regurging, several days after eating. Because there was a few day delay in the regurge I couldn't tell which one was doing it (by body girth, or any other means). This happened over the course of a few weeks, and still I could never figure out which on was regurging. Finally I placed each one in its own enclosure, gave them both a couple week period of no food (so which ever one was regurging could recoup), and then started them feeding again. Never had either one regurge again. To this day both are very healthy...residing in there own spaces. I figured there was just enough of a stress factor to induce this behavior, because neither one have had any health issues whatsoever otherwise. So that was my one experience housing more than one snake in an enclosure. My suggestion...give them each their own enclosure!

Steve
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