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Is it possible to house two ball pythons of close size in the same enclosure if there are an adequate amount of hiding places and room? Ps. They get taken out of the cage separately to feed


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It's possible, but not recommended for multiple reasons, mostly aggression and possible mating stress on both animals. Stress increases the chance of illness and they will spread any illness to each other. You would need to quarantine a new animal away from your collection so another cage setup is needed regardless.

Extreme cases have also reported territorial cannibalism, male on male dominance copulation, and of course fighting injuries.

"Adequate space" should probably ideally involve a 15foot squared enclosure.

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It's not a good idea to house them together for any reason other than breeding.

Another thing that can happen from housing them together is one will be more dominant than the other. It can stress the less dominant one enough to go on a feeding fast. It happened with my boys. They started out really close in size and then my pastel got stressed and wasn't really eating much. My normal just kept growing. Now, they're in separate enclosures and my pastel is chowing down.