Is it bad to have two BP together ?

A couple years ago I enjoyed having a pair of healthy normal ball pythons. One was about 30 inches and the other was about 35. I obtained them at different times from different people and after a quarantine period of 6 weeks I housed them together in a 55 gallon terrarium, which was perfect size for the two of them. I never did find out their sexes but they coexisted quite nicely. Including spending most of the days wrapped up in each other inside my upside down clay pot hide. I fed them separately in another container and they never skipped more than one meal once in a while. I never had any ill effects and my setup was all the more beautiful because there were 2 snakes. Someday I will like do this again. But for now I'm trying to simply find a single young python with 20 gallon terrarium to begin the journey again. :) thx

This battles been fought too many times. It can be done with an appropriate level of skill and knowledge. And despite minimizing risks as much as humanly possible there will always be the risk of cannibalism. I have succeeded in keeping two snakes together and have never met anyone who has has cannibalism occur in their collection. So it is 100% up to the keeper. You just need to be well learned. Both methods have their place and we should all keep a healthy respect for anothers way of doing things. So bottom line iys your choice, just make sure if you do it you minimize risks.


-Riveran