2 New BP's

I would suggest at least one more hide if not more since you have two snakes in one tank. Im definitely no expert but I've noticed my bp loves having both hides for different reasons. And also loves having something to climb on, even if it's barely used.

Congratulations and good luck!

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Originally Posted by Stormy

You are reading information from people who keep the same snakes as you but you don't believe what you read? Unregulated UTH burns are real; do a Google search for images, I wouldn't recommend doing it while eating as some of the pics are hard to look at.

I'm using UTH for now until my T10's show up; then I'll be switching to RHP only and no UTH. This information comes from the wonderful people on this site who have been raising balls a lot longer then I have.

So read what you want; believe what you want. There's a recent thread about one ball python eating another ball python while the owner was cleaning their enclosure and put them together for a short time. So it does happen.

Can you keep two snakes together; sure. Would I recommend it; no.

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I googled the snake burns; those poor snakes!I use a heat lamp and get tired of misting sometimes but i would rather do that than have my snake burned like that. Especially since I just use paper rowels for substrate.

I also saw the thread mentioned, and was shocked. Be careful.

Mines unplugged. Tomorrow Im getting a dimmer from home depot, and setting it to heat no more then 90f. Iv read this is a happy medium. I will be looking for or building a controller for the mat and the two lamps. There must be a method for misting automatically too. Ill figure it out.

Hydrofarm Heat Pad Thermostat on Amazon is a good thermostat; I'm currently using 4 of them to regulate my heat mats, work great and not a lot of money. Around $30.

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Mines unplugged. Tomorrow Im getting a dimmer from home depot, and setting it to heat no more then 90f. Iv read this is a happy medium. I will be looking for or building a controller for the mat and the two lamps. There must be a method for misting automatically too. Ill figure it out.

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I just saw on a thread something about an automatic mister. Pet stores carry them. Also different substrate holds moisture better. I like paper towels because of the easy clean up and I haven't really read or seen any negative responses to using them other than they don't look the best.

Ok so Unless your housing kingsnakes with other snakes or much bigger snakes with smaller snakes.. Its really rare that you could loose a snake to the other one eating the snake. I'm not saying it doesn't happen but i've been keeping snakes together for over 35 years mostly males with males and females with females and usually the same size and species. However i had an 8' red tailed boa with a 4' ball python for 10 years they did fantastic together. Yes its probably better to house them seperatly i'm just saying that unless your housing the wrong kind of snakes together and/or placing much bigger ones with much smaller ones the chances of that even happening is much slighter then some of the users commenting on make it out to be. I'm sure everybody will slam me for saying that however I've had a lot of experience with snakes in general and it is a good rule of thumb to keep them seperated but if you dont have the room and must keep them together make sure they are around the same size and species.

Loose coconut substrate holds humidity amazingly. Almost never have to mist.

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Ok so Unless your housing kingsnakes with other snakes or much bigger snakes with smaller snakes.. Its really rare that you could loose a snake to the other one eating the snake. I'm not saying it doesn't happen but i've been keeping snakes together for over 35 years mostly males with males and females with females and usually the same size and species. However i had an 8' red tailed boa with a 4' ball python for 10 years they did fantastic together. Yes its probably better to house them seperatly i'm just saying that unless your housing the wrong kind of snakes together and/or placing much bigger ones with much smaller ones the chances of that even happening is much slighter then some of the users commenting on make it out to be. I'm sure everybody will slam me for saying that however I've had a lot of experience with snakes in general and it is a good rule of thumb to keep them seperated but if you dont have the room and must keep them together make sure they are around the same size and species.

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The red tail didn't eat the ball? Wow that's quite a shock to me, I would have thought for sure that the poor little ball python was food.


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