Boy, well this feels really depressing... I've just come from an animal centre that trains apprentices and they had a large tank for three corn snakes. They had one half log hide, and one proper hide which is identical to the two I keep in my snake's enclosure.

All three of the corn snakes were curled into the one secure hide and I almost cried thinking about how stressed out they must have been. I asked them if they are all kept in one enclosure and said that they could cannibalise each other from stress, but she told me they were friends. My parents told me I must have been misinformed about the snakes from reading incorrect knowledge from unreliable sources online.

Surely there shouldn't be three cornsnakes with only 1 proper hide kept together in an enclosure though? I don't really know what to do, I feel powerless as it seems like everyone disagreed with me.

Can somebody please just tell me if this is bad husbandry? It feels like it is and I'm so upset thinking about them all sat on top of each other and everybody saying that I was misinformed. Maybe I am anthropomorphising them but from everything I've read - even on the official corn snake website - it feels like this is bad practice and I should do something about it.