Larry doesn't know anything?

[Valentine Pirate]

If he does all this and it works for him, awesome! It's good to have multiple sources of information and insight, you can usually learn a thing or two. However, just because one guy does something that works for him like housing multiple BPs together, does not mean that it's a free card to show to newer keepers to say it's alright. Just like there are some more experienced reptile folk who don't have hot spots and instead keep the room at a constant ambient temp, I really wouldn't recommend it as a practice to someone who doesn't know what they are doing.

There's no need to get defensive about members disagreeing with this guy's practices. The simple part of the matter is that there are more pros (mostly in record keeping and preventing diseases) when keeping BPs singly. If you or others wish to do differently, no one is going to stop you. We don't have any right or ability to. I just get worried when issues like this come up because I can see a person newer to BPs looking at multiple housing being ok with an older experienced guy, and rather than putting the health of the animal first they decide to get multiple snakes for one enclosure just to save space. Without the experience to tell if the snake is stressed or not it could be disastrous.

I suppose my whole point is that most of animal keeping, snakes or others, is finding out what works for the animal and you. Naturalistic enclosures, racks, rubbermaid tubs on shelves, the list goes on. There isn't a right or wrong. Personally, I think it's easier to keep my BPs apart. I can keep track of who's doing what. Since I've only been keeping snakes for about 2 years I think it's beneficial that I can tell what snake had a runny stool or other such issues and there aren't any questions as to what snake.