We have a little baby ball (she's only about 15" long). We had her in her own tank (for quarantine period)from our other two balls (one is about 4" the other is probably almost that long too). While she was by herself, she was always out climbing around and "dancing". The quarantine was over a couple of weeks ago so we put her in the big tank with the other two. She doesn't come out much out of her hidey hole. Suddenly she has taking to biting me. She's bitten me twice. It doesn't hurt, she's too small to hurt, but our other snakes never bite. She really seems to cop her attitude shortly after joining the other two. The bigger two always curl up together but she won't get near them. I've never seen her go at them but she seems very aloof. Could she be "bothered" by the size of the other two snakes? I'm thinking of putting her back in her own cage until she gets bigger. Opinions?
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Veronica
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Baby Biting
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Correction: (couldn't figure out how to edit). The other two snakes are 4 feet long not 4 inches long. Oops!
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Veronica
they should not be keep together execept for breeding in my opinion. And your little guy is probaby very intimidated by the two larger guys...
I'd put her back into her own cage and watch her attitude improve....
I agree. I'd say it's stress from being housed together.
There's been a lot of debate over the years about whether or not to house snakes together, BP's, Corn Snakes and other species. I feel that most of the evidence points to keeping them seperate- particularly a baby who is housed with adults, but you'll have to do the research and decide for yourself. Good luck.
I agree with the other posts. You are probably stressing the hell out of the baby ball by putting her in with larger snakes. Also, as has been mentioned before, most people would agree that the snakes should be housed separately regardless of their size. In this case especially, the snake is probably very intimidated/scared by the other 2 larger snakes.
The baby is hiding and is highly stressed. It bites because it thinks that you're the big snakes coming to eat it. Small snakes have to defend themselves instinctively because in the wild there are so many predators that want to eat them (nice little morsels that are easy to catch and eat, sorta like Hershey Kisses). The baby will calm down but only if you give it its own enclosure.
I would house the baby by it self until it gets use to things
