boas cohabitating with pythons

[avriette]

where are you looking? unless they are very young neonates right out of the egg or adults that are breeding, I can't recall ever seeing chondros (or any morelia for that matter) cohabitating.

These were on the first page on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uiyFOXaK98
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJliuALcXTY

you've been given some good advice, but ultimately it's up to you whether you intend to put it into practice. I'm not sure your best angle is to try to look for inconsistencies in the husbandry of other animals that don't pertain to your collection.

I hope I haven't given the impression that I'm disagreeing with everyone. I am just trying to figure out how I became so misguided (frankly, I thought I was being pretty responsible!), and it looks like there's a lot of bad information out there. As I said earlier, when I started keeping snakes, I couldn't hop on a forum and ask people who had snakes. My first ball python was a rescue, as was my second. And both were full-grown. So what little I knew, I learned from the people who had been keeping them (which, in hindsight, was not a great idea) and from the pet stores where I purchased their rats -- which, of course, I fed them live because I didn't know any better! On this second piece, I thought I was doing the right thing by asking people that were (clearly) more knowledgeable than I was. I just started looking around for people who were already keeping snakes, and who had been keeping them longer. There isn't an inherent "rating based on correctness" on Youtube, so I was misled.

Particularly moving are these couple:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1t0hlS1mqY (enormous argentine boas)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPq80TaeEAA (a pair of green anacondas that seem to be kept together)

I saw them and thought, huh, so snakes with that much of a size discrepancy seem to be doing okay together. That's all. I hope you can see it would be easy to be misled. When I had "done this research," I thought to myself, well, I should probably go ask b-p.net what the correct way to do this is, because I don't want to put them together the wrong way -- never questioning the notion that they should be together in the first place. Does that make sense?

I also want to make clear this isn't about money or anything, I just thought it would be easier to clean one tank at a time instead of two (or three!). Clearly, it's not a good idea to have them all in one enclosure.