Introducing Snakes To Eachother - Help!

[The-Jame]

I've got a large female jungle carpet python who I've had for a couple of years now and she is a absolute dream to handle, I'm going to be getting a 6 X 3 X 2 tank for her and I hope to introduce a male in with her in the coming months, are there any tips you guys can give me with introducing them together? Anything I need to look out for?

Thanks.

[vangarret2000]

Are you introducing to breed or just to house together? If you are doing just to house then together the answer is don't.

If you are doing it to breed them make sure you have done all your proper research on breeding. You say in the coming months so you have time to study, but don't be putting them together if you aren't fully understanding what you are doing in hopes that everything will turn out fine. A quick google search will give you lots of pages to read up on.

From your post it does sound like you just want to house them together, not breed them. Again if that's the case then don't do it. Snakes shouldn't be housed together. It opens up too many possible hazards that would never happen from being housed alone. You could house them for years with no problems or they could be housed together for days and one or both get injured or killed.

That being said, there are some species of snakes that are a naturally communal animal( and lots of lizards too) so if you wanna house multiple reptiles in one tank then get an appropriate species. Garter snakes and rubber boas are examples. Even with them though there are still added dangers you can run into.