Multiple females same tank.... why not?

[shelliebear]

The problem in my eyes is that in the wild, yes, you may find females together.
However, they were not put there against there will, nor are they locked inside a rodent burrow with a lid.
They choose to house together, and they have the option to leave if they want to--and not only leave, but go FAR, FAR AWAY. An almost unlimited amount of space away.
People use the argument "but in the wild..."
They are not in the wild. The truth is that when we own them, they are in captivity, and it is very different.
Do they have their instincts? Yes. But to keep them safe, and ourselves safe, we take control of a lot of their ability to use their instinctive behavior--keeping them in a tank, feeding them properly sized food (and often), determining the space they live in, etc.
Not that it's bad for us to do that, but you have to understand, you cannot take a snake who has lived in captivity with humans making its decisions for it and expect it to flourish in the wild, or survive in a tank being expected to act like an 18 foot tank is the wild.
It is not.
A tank is a tank.
Nature is nature.
They are not the same.
I hope that helps.
Shellie
(why not make a rack system for your snakes?)