Quote Originally Posted by BALLPYTHON
well some people keep multiple snakes together and have no problems.
You mean no apparent problems, or no problems that they will tell you about.

I can buy a dog and keep it in a closet in my house with no lights, feed it, provide it with water, take it to the vet regularly, walk it a couple of times a day and say that the dog has "no problems", but that doesn't make what I'm doing right.

I can buy a horse and keep it in my basement .... feed it, provide it with water, make sure it gets regular veterinary care, maybe take it out to ride a couple of times a month and say that it has "no problems" but that wouldn't be right either.

Just because someone claims to have "no problems" with the care they provide does not mean that the care they are providing is in the animals best interest.

You have to ask yourself, if a ball python gets no possible benefit from being housed together, every "expert" in the hobby/field of ball python husbandry recommends housing ball python individually, and there are documented potentially hazardous side effects to housing ball pythons with other animals, why would anyone even consider doing otherwise?

-adam