is it ok to put two ball pythons together

[rocky88]

i have a baby bp about 2-3 months old about 18-20 inchs. and i am buying another tomarrow not sure how old but is like 2 1/2 feet. the one i have is a male and the one i am buying tomarrow is a female so i was wondering if they might try to hurt eachother or if for some reason they might try to mate and the male being much younger could it hurt him.

[gu1do24]

never. there are pleanty of threads on here about not doing it. dont. they will stress out, possibly not eat, possibly die from this.

[littleindiangirl]

1 animal per enclosure.

[frankykeno]

You'll need to quarantine the new snake from the one you already have anyways so no you couldn't put them together right away even if that was a good idea. Each snake to their own home is usually best.

[dizzy]

Please don't house your ball pythons together.

The larger one will dominate the smaller one... It will LOOK like "cuddling" but it's dominance. It will stress out the smaller one and it will not eat.

Yes there is an issue of them trying to breed at too young an age which will be more of a problem for the female. She could easily become egg bound and die.

It's wonderful that you came here to ask first, instead of just sticking them together and waiting till a problem arose.

[BMorrison]

I would recommend 1 to an enclosure unless you're breeding.

[rocky88]

i didnt plan on housing them together i got setups for each i was just wondering if its ok for them to just like "hang out" every once in a while under my supervision

[frankykeno]

Sorry you're original post wasn't very clear on that. They should have no contact until after quarantining the new snake.

[rocky88]

what about when there are older and i try to breed them then it would obviously be fine right

[frankykeno]

Yep though they are only together for short periods of time when mating.