2 snakes, one tank?

Hey all, we have a 6 yr old bp happy and healthy. A friend is looking for a home for her adult bp. I am wondering if the two can co-habitate? I have not yet asked for details about her adult. Wondering if I should bother considering it first. Thanks for any advice you have!

No. Please do not put a snake that you haven't quarantined in with your established snake. Best conditions would be a separate room, separate container, and everything being completely separate. You never know what the other snake could pass on to your's. Ball pythons are solitary animals in the wild and only get together to mate. Which might also be a problem if you have a male and a female living together in the same tank. Maybe she can sell you the set up and everything with the snake so you won't have to worry about it.

I would certainly quarantine it :)) So a no go even if they are same sex? Thanks!

I wouldn't. Too many problems that arises when you put snakes together.
IE, Cannibalism, Fighting over heating sources, Diseases, new born babies you weren't expecting, etc..

I wouldn't do it personally. Just don't see it being worth the risks no matter how minimal to me. I know people do keep multiple snakes, lizards, etc.. in the same tank however unless I am breeding everyone gets their own enclosure.

I personally would not. For me it's much easier to monitor their health kept in separate enclosures.

Never have more than 1 ball python in the same enclosure.

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Originally Posted by M&H

No. Please do not put a snake that you haven't quarantined in with your established snake. Best conditions would be a separate room, separate container, and everything being completely separate. You never know what the other snake could pass on to your's. Ball pythons are solitary animals in the wild and only get together to mate. Which might also be a problem if you have a male and a female living together in the same tank. Maybe she can sell you the set up and everything with the snake so you won't have to worry about it.

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Pat attention to this!

Quarantine every reptile coming in.
You do not want good intentions to result in the loss on all of your reptilian pets.

I won't go so far as to say BP's cannot be housed together after they are found to be parasite and infection free. But, the requirements to do this are impractical and also interfere with monitoring which snake is feeding (depending on method), which snake is excreting normally or abnormally, providing adequate hides with the ideal temp. gradient.
In short it would be a huge pain to do that, not to mention expensive.
I am sure that a tub could be set up relatively cheaply. I don't do this myself yet so, will let other people familiar with this set-up give you better advice than I could.

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Originally Posted by M&H

Ball pythons are solitary animals in the wild and only get together to mate.

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This is definitely not true lol

You can keep ball pythons together, but it's not recommended for inexperienced keepers. Also, if one's male and one's female they'll try to breed and two males will fight. There's the obvious things where if one is sick the other gets sick. Cohabitating will not save you time or money and instead will cost more. You have to have multiple hot spots, multiple hides for each, it's not easy.