Balls and Boas

As long as you follow proper quarantine procedures, you should be able to house multiple species in the same snake room.

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

I think most will say one snake, one enclosure unless breeding.

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How would you go about breeding a boa and a ball? LOL

I do believe he meant for any snake reguardless of type, not necessarily just boas and balls.

The incubation period for IBD has lasted as long as a year an half in a boa (they received the snake, isolated it for quarantine, and it didn't fall ill til that much later)---most people's quarantining falls far short of that.

So, yes, there is a good point in keeping boas and balls in seperate rooms... if you get a sick boa that is asymptomatic to IBD, but starts showing signs months longer, only the other boas in the room will possibly become infected.

But, that doesn't really solve the problem... because you still lose your boas.

We currently have about 50 Boas and 14 Ball Pythons in one Reptile Room. I see no problem at all in having Boas, Pythons and even Colubrids in the same room as long as strict quarantine and maintenance procedures are followed throughout the year without exception.

If you mean keeping Boas and BP's in one enclosure? I would not keep any two snakes whether they be Boas and Boas or BP's and BP's in one enclosure, unless some breeding was taking place.

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Originally Posted by Mr. H

How would you go about breeding a boa and a ball? LOL

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You don't, it can't happen.

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Originally Posted by bpkid

You don't, it can't happen.

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Erm, that's what the LOL was for, some guy once said that you should keep a python and a boa together to see if they can mate, I was like "WHAT!?"

Oh, I thought you were serious.

I was hoping you weren't :)

I think most of us here realize what a bad idea it is to house two snakes together. I was meaning the same snake room, not same enclosure. :)

Also, in reference to an earlier post, how many people do pay to have every new boa tested?

Testing for IBD actually requires a liver biopsy to find inclusion bodies... it can cost upwards of $150 per snake.