It's not even about "big enough" or separate but equal or anything else ... when housing ball pythons together it's about dominance. When 2 or more ball pythons are together, one will become dominant and the others will become submissive. The dominance is sometimes overt, but mostly subtle. To the untrained eye, you will probably never see it happen, but it does. One ball python WILL GET the better everything .... It's like 2 little kids ... if they are playing together and the smaller or younger child wants a cookie, the older or larger child will suddenly want one too (even if he wasn't even thinking about eating or cookies in the first place, it's purely instinctual ... dominance) ... the 2 children will compete to see who gets the "first cookie" out of the cookie jar ... it doesn't matter who wins because in the end one will inevitably lose. Same thing happens with ball pythons, and in the ball python world loser == stressed animal. Over a long enough time a stressed ball python will begin to get sick because the stress will take a toll on the animals immune system.Originally Posted by Ginevive
-adam
