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I know cornsnakes are not social animals. However, I have two juvenile corns that make a good job at pretending they are. They are both females. I housed them together to save space until they were big enough for my racks, in a ten gallon tank. Initially I noticed they would both huddle together under the coconut shell and ignored the rock cave i supplied as a second hide. Not wanting to stress them, I immediately bought a second cococut shell, assuming they just preferred it. My room temperture is suffecient, so there is no heat source, both shells are the same temperture. However, they are always together! If I take one out and try to guide it towards the other shell, within a few minutes, one of them will crawl over to the other shell and theyll coil up together. I can't explain it for the life of me. They are serpated for 24 hours while they're feeding, obviously, and they have never shown an aggressive or stressed behaviors towards each other. They both eat extremely well, shed well (and usually at the same time), and are growing rapdily.

Anyone else experience this phenomena? I've never seen it before and don't know how to explain it.
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Corn Snakes: Eden, Mars, Sierra, Lavendar, The Tweedle Twins
Crested Geckos: Parker, Emily Dickinson, Bonnie, Unnamed 1 & unnamed 2, Cali
Leopard Geckos: Paris, Helen, Annabelle, Artemis
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>>I know cornsnakes are not social animals.

Why would anyone think that they weren't social? All animals are social to a certain extent - if they weren't there'd be no offspring.

I have for years kept corns together in various groupings year round. Currently, I have a female emory rat living with two male corns. No agression between the three. Some days, they all hang out together in the same hide. Some days the emory and one of the males will hang together while the other male stays in another hide. Other days, the male hanging with the emory is reversed. Heck there are times when the males are together and the female is off by herself. Very rarely are all three each by themself in various parts of the cage.

I have two eggs from the emory incubating that should be hatching in the next week or so. I don't know for certain who the father is. I could say the amel is theoretically the father and the anery is not. However, if I were to state that, I'd probably be accused of anthromorphising as I would then have to admit I come to that conclusion because I found the amel with the emory inside the egg laying box and decided he wanted to be there to witness the 'birth' of his future children. But no one heard me say that. LOL
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PHWyvern

WHat do you do during mating season with 2 males in the presence of a female?
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Judge me all you want...just don't share the verdict

>>WHat do you do during mating season with 2 males in the presence of a female?
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Let nature take its course. The emory is no pushover. She is very adept at avoiding advances she doesn't want. In the 11 years I've owned her (she's at least 14 years old) this is her 3rd clutch (2 were from a previous male she used to be housed with - not the two she is now living with).
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PHWyvern

my corns are exatly the same as urs. although i did have an incident about three weeks ago one bit the other but that was my fault i introduced them back to the vivarium to early after feeding.