Quote Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny View Post
Why would you want to house them together?

Many on this site do not recommend housing snakes together as it takes a lot of effort to make sure each snake has its needs met correctly. Housing snakes together causes more problems than it solves and for most people, it just isn't worth it. How will you make sure each snake has proper places to thermoregulate. If there is a favorite spot in the cage, the two snakes will compete for it, often stressing the snakes. Some snakes go off feed if housed together. If one regurgitates, how will you know which one it is? If one gets sick, the other is almost guaranteed to get sick as well. You could have aggression issues. If one of your snakes is not sexed properly and you house a female with a male, the female could begin breeding too early.

So many problems and I just don't see any benefit to the snakes being together. My advice is to house them separately.
To be honest I want to house them together because its easier to deal with (physically and financially) one big enclosure as oppose to two slightly smaller enclosures. If I wanted to house two female burms in one 8'x3'x24'' cage it would be easier than one burm per 6'x3'x24'' cage.

As for thermoregulating, if there's a big enough temperature gradient in the cage, how would it be a problem for the snakes to accomplish this? Sexing wouldnt be an issue either because I get my burms screened and sexed by a local vet along with me popping their vent for gender.

It seems like proper husbandry of the snakes would keep a lot of these problems from arising. Please dont take this as me dismissing your post, but maybe it wouldnt be as bad as you think it would be as long as proper husbandry is practiced.

Thanks.