housing ANY snakes together

If you are walking through at blistering hot desert and see a lone tree providing shade....You will sit in the shade because you need to cool down. Another person walking in the hot desert sees the shade tree, heads toward it to cool down, and sits down in the shade 10 feet from you. Because the two people sought out the same environmental condition, does that fact have any social significance at all?

Just because two of the same animals are found in the same place, it does not make them social.....all it does is make them animals with the same enviromental requirements ;)

Sure articles may provide some insight (or guesses) into the reasons animals are doing things.....but they are pretty much worthless when compared to real-life experiences...it does not matter if you are talking about captive animals or wild animals.....experience and first hand observations are everything.

I have seen all sorts of animals 'together'......and from my oberservations, it ALWAYS equates to one thing.....they are together because they share a common basic need......food/water, shelter from environmental conditions and danger, and reproduction...besides those needs...what other reason do they have to be 'social'?

Just to drive the 'No' home one more time, here is a thread about it:

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/sho...highlight=bill

It is a thread to another forum about this same subject. Hope I'm not crossing the line by posting a link to another forum's thread (mods feel free to remove it if needed). It includes graphic pictures, including one snake eating another of it's own species. You take a risk housing any snakes together.

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Originally Posted by silverdust

Just to drive the 'No' home one more time, here is a thread about it:

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/sho...highlight=bill

It is a thread to another forum about this same subject. Hope I'm not crossing the line by posting a link to another forum's thread (mods feel free to remove it if needed). It includes graphic pictures, including one snake eating another of it's own species. You take a risk housing any snakes together.

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I guess I will post some pictures too, same species this time. 2 BP housed together documented by an article in Reptile Magazine

http://www.geocities.com/gaballpythons/Cannibalism1.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/gaballpythons/Cannibalism2.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/gaballpythons/Cannibalism3.jpg

Until someone posts irrefutable proof that housing snakes together is beneficial and superior to housing them alone, I will always say that they should be housed seperately. I have seen so much irrefutable proof that seperate housing is good, that this is what I believe.

ok now the site's getting personal with me....whatever....if they dont want to take my advice when i give it to them...then they can stick it.

one of the main mods even said the info you guys gave "wasnt solid" and he gets info from other people.i'd like to know who those other people are.

Tell them to use common sense.

What if one of your snakes becomes impacted? You wouldn't know until it gets bad because you cannot tell which is going and which isn't. If one snake gets sick the other one will. If one gets mites or ticks, the other one will. Snakes are cannibalistic…

There a ton of common sense reasons to NOT house multiple reptiles together.

It really boils down to people being too cheap to properly house their pets.

i tell them that,they just wont listen.the same thing happened at petco that one time.one person says something and it's right, but if i say the same thing but different,im wrong.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...snaketwins.jpg

Houseing a colubrid with any other colubrid is a BIG NO NO! These amels were being shipped, so don't think....oh, they will only be together for alittle while, no harm done right? WRONG!! Boas and pythons transfer desease EASILY, an kings and milks are snake canniblals.....'nough said!

ignorant people bother me.


all they are doing is trying to justify not spending the extra money to get two enclosures.

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Originally Posted by green_man

ignorant people bother me.

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you have no idea....