BP housing partner

i was interested in buying a baby(10-12") sumatran blood python from LLLreptile(thats IF my parents let me get another snake) and i was wondering if it would be able to be housed together along with my Ball python.my BP is 1.5 ft.i think i'll be getting a female blood python and my BP is most likely male so would they get along? they wouldn't try to mate/cross-breed in the future would they?

No. Save your money.....buy a new enclosure and house each individually.

Snakes should be house individually unless you are breeding them.

Just to clarify a bit on what Daniel said....even when breeding, snakes aren't really "housed together"...they are put in the same enclosure temporarily (like 24-48 hours) and then separated again...for the express purpose of breeding.


It's NOT ok to house two snakes together all the time in the hopes that they might one day breed, or if you don't care if they breed or not.

Search around these forums...there are TONS of threads explaining why you should not house snakes together, either same species or different.

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Originally Posted by Snakeman

i was interested in buying a baby(10-12") sumatran blood python from LLLreptile(thats IF my parents let me get another snake) and i was wondering if it would be able to be housed together along with my Ball python.my BP is 1.5 ft.i think i'll be getting a female blood python and my BP is most likely male so would they get along? they wouldn't try to mate/cross-breed in the future would they?

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first of all, the answer is no. It is a VERY bad idea to house two snakes together, especially of different species.

Second of all, LLLreptile is known for bad animals shipped. Buying from them at a show is better because you actually see the animal. On their website they have no individual pics.

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Originally Posted by bpkid

Second of all, LLLreptile is known for bad animals shipped. Buying from them at a show is better because you actually see the animal. On their website they have no individual pics.

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They are? I've never heard anything bad about LLLReptile. :confuzd:

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Originally Posted by JLC

They are? I've never heard anything bad about LLLReptile. :confuzd:

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yeah neither have i.no ones ever told me anything bad about them.i guess i'll have to buy a separate enclosure and see if i can wait 'till december for the next nearest herp show.

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Originally Posted by Snakeman

yeah neither have i.no ones ever told me anything bad about them.i guess i'll have to buy a separate enclosure and see if i can wait 'till december for the next nearest herp show.

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Well its a risk with any breeder who doesn't give you pics of an animal they are selling to you.

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Originally Posted by Snakeman

yeah neither have i.no ones ever told me anything bad about them.i guess i'll have to buy a separate enclosure and see if i can wait 'till december for the next nearest herp show.

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Well then you got 2.5 months to get another enclosure, see everything works out!;)

~mike

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Originally Posted by wildlifewarrior

Well then you got 2.5 months to get another enclosure, see everything works out!;)

~mike

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technically right now i DO have enough money but just for the tank itself.hopefully i'll get plenty of money for my b-day party this weekend and i'll use that to buy anything else i'll need.

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Originally Posted by bpkid

Well its a risk with any breeder who doesn't give you pics of an animal they are selling to you.

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well he does have a pic of the blood but i guess 1 pic is supposed to represent all the bloods he has.

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Originally Posted by Snakeman

well he does have a pic of the blood but i guess 1 pic is supposed to represent all the bloods he has.

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Yeah, it actually represents all the bloods they have. I heard they don't even breed their own animals, they just broker them

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Originally Posted by bpkid

Second of all, LLLreptile is known for bad animals shipped.

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Well its a risk with any breeder who doesn't give you pics of an animal they are selling to you.

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So are they an "risk" or are they "known for bad animals." The two are signifigantly different statements.

As with ANY animal, pics or not, information is key. A picture is worth a thousand words, but the words "wild caught" and "captive born" are worth ten thousand pictures.

Pretty outlandish, however, to claim they ship bad animals because they don't have pictures of them.

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Originally Posted by jhall1468

Pretty outlandish, however, to claim they ship bad animals because they don't have pictures of them.

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I didnt say they ship bad animals because they dont have pictures. I said its always a risk when you don't see a picture. Someone I know on another forum knows some people that have had bad animals shipped to them/

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Originally Posted by bpkid

I didnt say they ship bad animals because they dont have pictures. I said its always a risk when you don't see a picture. Someone I know on another forum knows some people that have had bad animals shipped to them/

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Shaun, this is really the worst way ever to try and support or back up something you've said. It's not just hearsay, but it's third-party hearsay and quite frankly has absolutely no credibility whatsoever.

I understand you're trying to help, but to claim someone is "known for shipping bad animals" while backing it up with such flimsey evidence is no more than slander.

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Originally Posted by Your own words

LLLreptile is known for bad animals shipped.

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Now, if you want to back up your claim by saying, "I know of four separate people who have been unhappy with their animals shipped from LLL and here are the links to where they are discussing it..." or something along those lines...you'd have a bit more credibility.

Otherwise it comes across as silly as saying, "Yeah, well, my mom works with this guy who knew somebody who's cousin said that he saw a man eaten by a 40' retic."

I know this has already kind of been solved but I can't resist:

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Originally Posted by Mr. H

Here's some quotes against housing together:
Originally posted by “Dougie”

“Alright, so I was cleaning out the cages tonight for my two ball pythons and somehow got a crack in the aquarium. So, I decide it isn't a good idea to keep the snake in there because it is a pretty nasty crack and I didn't want the snake to get cut. Well, I decided that one night in the same enclosure wouldn't hurt until I could get to the store tomorrow. I was laying there in bed and I hear what sounds like a snake pouncing a rat/mouse, so I get up to check on all the snake and I see that the little ball python has a hold on, and is trying to constrict the bigger one! So I grab the two immediately and separate them, fortunately there is just minimal bleeding so far, we are going in for a vet check tomorrow just to make sure everying is fine. I know better than to keep them together, but I figured one freakin night wouldn't hurt. Well, I guess I know better, and to everyone on here, it is worth going to walmart for a tub and lid. I just got back from there and have everyone settled in. I feel like crap for letting this happen.”

Originally posted by “CritterLover”

“I think the issue is SHOULD they be housed together and the clear answer there is NO!…Ya know why? They are just not social creatures. Housing them together puts them in a fundamentally abnormal situation and they get stressed. They have no instinct on how to be social and get stressed out from dominance issues.” One last one? Ok then:

Originally posted by “JLC”

“there may be some species that you can put together in a single terrarium, but BP's are NOT one of them.”

There you go. There's also a good example I found the other day. Ok, so say your BP is being housed alone, there's still a chance it'll be stressed right? Imagine that as a revolver with 10,000 chambers and 100 bullets in it, you spin the chamber and pull the trigger (kind of like an even more extreme version of russian roulette). If you house together, you are adding another 3,000 bullets into that gun. I don't know about you but I find that quite explanatory.

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That's just part of my massive quotes database.

Ok, I am sorry for those statements and ask if they be removed.