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I recently picked up a full grown jungle carpet python, that was used to breed, and "Ready to breed" from spitfire. i have no urges to breed her, i just thought she was a beautiful python, and she was very affordable. im currently building her a very large enclosure (using much of the info off these forums) but i have her in my wide 60 gallon with my red-tail boa. the boa is maybe 8 months, and about 2.5 feet long, and the JCP is full grown. i asked several vendors, including spitfire, if they thought having them together would be an issue, and all of them said it would be no problem.

So heres my concern. the JCP is always "snuggling" with the boa. the boa is very innactive most of the time, and really just lays arround, and the JCP likes to lay on or right near her. dosent matter if she is in the hot spot or not, i always see the JCP over the boa. is this just a python thing? i was babysitting my friends ball-python for a while and it did the same thing, only it was the same size as my boa, and well, its a ball python so it was cute, not scary. the BP is no longer in the enclosure.

should i be worried? i have a wide 20 gallon i could put the boa in, but she really loves the big tank. i figgure if she didnt like being under the JCP, she would move. the JCP never constricts her, or covers her head so that she cant breathe.

(and before i get it, i made sure all snakes were 0 healty before introducing them to one-another.)

thanks for any help.

Like I said your boa doesnt like your JCP he just tolerates him/her being around. I guess you could keep them together but thats only if you don't have a sufficient place to put the JCP. Don't do it because it's cute. You want to show true colors of both of them? Put a 200 gram rat in there live and watch how they suddenly hate each other.

Haha no way... i know that they arent being buddies. i defineatly dont think that the big JCP being all over the little boa is cute. i just wanted to know if i should seperate them asap. im in the process of building the enclosure for the JCP, and dont seing it being done for aprox. 3 weeks. The JCP is extremely docile (For a JCP anyway, its no ball) and my boa is the least aggressive snake ive ever owned.

just never seen em act like this without being hatchmates. weirded me out.

I think you're taking a risk by doing that. There's the chance nothing at all would happen and both would be fine, or there's the chance that one would kill the other one. It's generally not advised to keep different species together and depending on who you ask keep any together unless for breeding purposes. I've seen pictures before of red tails that were housed with a different species and the results weren't pretty. If you have a tank that can accomodate the smaller of the two for the next 3 weeks I would say to separate the two. That way there's NO CHANCE that anything can happen to them. It just seems like an unnecessary risk to take when you do have a spare cage. Sure they might not be "happy" in the smaller cage, but it's better to be somewhat cramped for 3 weeks then to possibly end up dead. Just my opinion on the matter.
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1.0 Anery Columbian Redtail Boa
1.0 Striped Coastal Carpet/Irian Jaya Carpet Python
0.1 Gray Banded Kingsnake
1.1 Ball Pythons
1.0 Sunglow Striped Corn
1.2 Leopard Geckos (Albino, Severe Reduced Patter, Carrot tail)
1.1 Pugs (Male-Fawn, Female-Black)
Various Fish

Snakes of the same species will attack each other at certain times, so difeerent species? Nope...wouldn't do it. Too many accidents have happened.
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1.1 Blackheaded pythons
1.1 Woma (Juvie female)
2.1 Aussie Olives
1.1 Timors
1.0 Angolan Juvie
1.1 Savu
1.1 Juvie Bloods
1.1 Juvie Balls
1.1 IJ Carpets
1.1 Coastal Carpets
1.2 Macklotts
1.1 Papuan Olives
0.1 Jungle Carpet
2.2 Scrubs (on breeding loan)
1.0 Jungle/Diamond cross
0.1 child, CB
0.1 wife, WC

I dont think that is true in some cases. I know all of you will be against this but i keep my two corns together,i would never do this in any other case except with my ringnecks, and they the(corns) are always cuddling together. When one leaves the hide so does the other. They copy each other and interact with each other a decent amount. They have never laid seperate.
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1.0 Albino Corn "Lucky"
1.0 Snow Corn "Snow"
0.0.3 Southern Ringneck "Collar", "Bc", "Lazy"
1.0 Green Amevia "Gizard"

soon to aquire

Corn- (not sure what morph yet)