Quote Originally Posted by elevatethis
You've been around for a while and have seen threads about this and the ill effects that communal housing has...its nice to bring it up for discussion...but what are you trying to get at?
no offense Brad, but I think you're being a little touchy about this, honestly I don't think he's trying to start anything it's just a question.
but Misael, you probably know that kingsnakes got their name because they eat other snakes, and not by accident or because they were kept together and starved, but because that is why their diet is, another problem would be witht he boa and python together things such as IBD so its never good to mix species
As a general rule everyone is right, don't keep snakes together, their are snakes like garters and rattlers that hibernate together in the wild, but then again, that's the wild and it's not because they need company, it's because they have a better chance or survival. In captivity one snake one cage, except for breeding and sometimes for this you will use a large group for better odds, such as the garters in manitoba, or even candoia in captivity where multiple males are usually needed for success. To break that rule there are many antaresia keepers who swear by colonies, but this is the exception to the rule and not something everyone agrees with.

sorry for the rambling