I am glad you are pleased with your new snakes. I have to tell you though, housing them together is not a very good idea. It can be done, but it really takes a lot of experience to do it correctly. You run a lot of real risks housing two snakes together, and the benefits are really negligible.

Among other things, illness is a real risk. If one gets sick, then both will be. This means double the vet bills, double the medication, and double the headache. And another consideration is cannibalism. There have been a number of documented cases of one ball python eating it's cage mate, which usually results in both dying. There is also a great risk involved in feeding two snakes housed together. Not only is it a lot more difficult to get them both eating, if one has an aggressive feeding response, there is a real chance the other might get bitten or even constricted by mistake.

Yes, there are people who house ball pythons and other snakes together successfully, but for most of us, it's simply not something we attempt. Too many risks involved with no real payoff for doing it.

I wish you all the best, but I really hope you will reconsider how you house your snakes.

Gale