More than one snake to a tub

[Pythonfriend]

i think its fine in case of an emergency, like power outage / heating failure in winter, or some other disaster, but it should be short-term. in summer, when the weather is warm, i would rather have them without heating for two days than to put them together for two days.


The thing is, when one snake doesnt like the other snake, or simply wants to be alone, they will harass each other. in nature, one would go in one direction and the other in another direction, problem solved. but if both are in one tub, none can leave, so they stress each other out, wear each other out, and get exhausted. And that can impact their health.


So if you really want to keep two together, the enclosure needs to be so large and have so many hides that they can go out of each others way. you need a terrarium with a large enough ground area and some height to it so that you can put in different levels and platforms and several hides and more than one water bowl, basically figure out a way that they dont constantly see each other and bump into each other. Even then you need to watch their behavior carefully and isolate them for feeding, and need to isolate them if they turn against each other or you see behavior changes. Its really hard and a real challenge.

if you dont have such a luxury enclosure designed to make communal keeping possible, then its really only a short-term solution to keep your snakes from freezing or drowning or getting burned, when things go majorly wrong and you must evacuate or something. It even happens to large, professional and well-prepared breeders that stuff goes so wrong that 8 BPs have to share one tub for a while because electricity is down for 3 days in a major snow storm and heat packs run out, that happened to NERD one time. Or like when the hurricane hit BHB reptiles and some tubs got flooded.

basically, avoid it if possible, but if its got to be done for a limited amount of time because there is no other way then thats how it is.