Scotty I have to agree with the consensus here...please don't house those snakes together for both their sakes as well as yours.

We have two ball pythons that have seperate enclosures. We have seen so much talk about this concept of seperation we decided to see what does indeed happen. We took them both out and placed them near each other. Immediately you could see the smaller ball become stressed....a definite "freezing" behaviour....muscles obviously tightening in what I assume was a flight or fight response. It was so very very obvious the smaller snake was afraid (in whatever sense a snake feels instinctive fear).

We of course immediately seperated them. The older snake had actually paid little to no attention to the smaller younger one. This "test" lasted perhaps seconds but drove home to the point to us that these snakes just simply don't need each other or want anything to do with each other except during mature, breeding activities.

By the way, before anyone thinks I would have risked Baby or Punkin be aware both Mike and I were inches from them (one of us responsible for each snake) and quite prepared to get bitten rather than see either of them bite the other. Baby (the younger snake) immediately began to act "normal" as soon as Punkin was removed from the area.

We tried this to see basically what does happen and determine whether it was advisable to have both snakes out to be handled at the same time in the same area (as in if the kid's each wanted to hold a snake or some such situation).




~~Jo~~