Thinking of setting up a tank and keeping a few rosies communally (in same tank). Anyone have any experience with doing this? Thanks in advance.
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Rosie's and communal housing.
Tony D
Nov 14, 2005 10:14 AM
Replies (5)
Desertboas
Nov 14, 2005 01:34 PM
It is fine and can be fun, if and only if:
1) All community rosy boas are well established, meaning:
- calm not stressed
- eating like lions
- not prone to health problems
2) None of the community boas have had any history of illness including regurg, respiratory infection, diarrhea, mites, etc.
3) Must be fed in separate containers and remain separated for up to one hour after. This tends to make community housing a real pain as feeding separately leads to other problems (leaving them out to long while doing something else or forgetting to put back). Put them back to quick, and WHACK, another rosys smell mouse scent on a cagemate strikes and contricts, even to the death.
Given the headaches and risks, most of us avoid community housing, but it can provide for more crawl space and add to viewing pleasure.
Larry
rootsrok
Nov 14, 2005 04:00 PM
To larrys post.
I would also reccomend that only one (adult) male be housed in a tank if there is a (adult) female and/ or the snakes were brumated. Not to mention everything larry said, Jon
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bmac
Nov 14, 2005 05:01 PM
hey jon what local boas are those?
rootsrok
Nov 14, 2005 08:02 PM
That is one of the hypo males pictured with a het hypo female. I produced both of them last year. I had a total of 2.1 hypos and .2 het females. Here are some more pics of the hypos. Jon
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FREEDOM PEACE UNITY ONE LOVE
bluerosy
Nov 15, 2005 09:15 PM
I used to have a very large collection of rosys and had no problems keeping them together. I normally kept 2 boas in one cage. I would feed them at the same time and made sure they were on opposite sides of the cage durng feeding. Had zero incidents of cannibalism. Males usually went off feed during the breeding season but started feeding during the summer months until brumation.
