Is it wrong to house different species in the same cage? If so why?..Thanks
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housing jcarpetpython with red tail boa.
jwilson
Aug 04, 2005 09:20 PM
Replies (3)
chris61988kb
Aug 08, 2005 11:53 AM
Here let me show you what can happen..
the redtail is dead in this picture
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/index.php?photo=192221
you can guess whos inside his belly
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/index.php?photo=192219&size=big
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/index.php?photo=192218
this is the snake being forced to regurgitate the redtial back up
http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/index.php?photo=192220
ok now if u read the comments to these pictures and what not youll find out that an INEXPERIENCED snake keeper housed a burmese python, redtail boa and papuan python together.... they believe this is what happend.... the papuan python killed the burmese python and then disturbed by the redtail in the cage also he killed the redtail and then ate it. The next morning they found the redtial to be inside the papuan python and the burmese python laying dead in the cage.
im sure you dont want anything like this to happen.... this is extreme tho... ud prolly end up for some scared up and hurt snakes.... maybe a dead one
Purplemonkey
Aug 12, 2005 12:03 AM
Yes. Different snakes have different requirements. Some snakes will get aggressive with other snakes. Some will eat other snakes. Usually, you can house the same kinds of pythons together without a problem, and I've heard of people housing different species together, but it is very very risky. A JCP and an RTB seem to have very different requirements, as well. =/
Jaykis
Aug 30, 2005 07:59 AM
Putting ANY other snake in the same cage w/an Apadora is nuts. It's even risky putting a male in with a female during breeding. Snakes should be housed by themselves. They can get territorial, also. I briefly put a 3' male IJ carpet in with the slightly larger female and she bit and coiled him. Took 2 months before he would feed again. Many years ago I had what they now call a Tiger Retic that had grabbed a rat. The larger Burmese smelled the rat and grabbed the retic and pulled, puncturing the retic's lung, and eventually killing it.
Separate cages for all animals, even juvies.
