Can i put 2 male bps in the same tank without problems?

[SatanicIntention]

Here's a good analogy to that 250 gallon tank..

Would you rather be naked in a cold, deserted, industrial building with the wind blowing and only a cardboard box to hide in, or would you rather be naked in a warm, small house with a blanket, a heater, sitting in a Lazy Boy?

Give me the lazy boy and heater any day!

[jknudson]

ok i dont disagree or nything but you guys are saying if i have my 250 gallon set up i cant put 2 female ball pythons in there ??? that it will actually be more benefitial to put them in rubbermaid containers....

Good luck with a decent temperature gradient in a tank that large.... while you're at it...add some free range prey..that would be "benefitial" I bet.

[Freakie_frog]

Here's a good analogy to that 250 gallon tank..

Would you rather be naked in a cold, deserted, industrial building with the wind blowing and only a cardboard box to hide in, or would you rather be naked in a warm, small house with a blanket, a heater, sitting in a Lazy Boy?

Give me the lazy boy and heater any day!

GIVE ME THE BUILDING YEA BABY!!!!

[West Coast Jungle]

GIVE ME THE BUILDING YEA BABY!!!!

Do we have a streaker amoung us?

[Reediculous]

Do we have a streaker amoung us?

LOL! what is the giants , dolphins game............that was only simi-entertaining thing about that game!

[Brimstone111888]

Well, what i'd like to know is how many of you who so strongly disagree with housing together are actually vets or herpologists. Anyone?

I actually checked with my vet (who sees my snakes on a regular basis) about housing them together ... The response I got was that if they both got through the quarantine period with a clean bill of health he saw nothing wrong with it. His only recommendation regarding the subject was that I should not feed them together in the same tank because of the possibility of them both simultaneously strike at their food and pose a potential problem.

I think I'm going to take the advise on this subject from someone who sees snakes and other reptiles on regular basis. Oh, yeah, did i mention that my vet has 2 BP housed together? He did strongly suggest that I not house more than 2 though. He also recommended that I take them out of their tank individually for brief periods (30 min to an hour) on a daily basis to allow them a seperation to help prevent the potential for possible incident. But like i said before, every creature (snake, lizard, bird, dog, PEOPLE, etc, has the potential to hurt another of it's species. It is the exception - not the rule. I could drown when I go swimming .... just because of the rare possibility of that happening, am I not going to go?

Wow. You are being very ignorant. College graduate or not. Why ask questions on a board dedicated to Ball Pythons, than when about 20 people give you the exact same opinion, you dismiss it outright. On top of that you pretty much insult the whole community.

Vets study very briefly on animal husbandry. Most of the study is centered around how systems work and more medical things. So getting husbandry advice from a vet is not recommended.

Snakes are not people. They do not go to work every day, they don't need social interaction. Snakes are about as far away from people as you can get, but yet you and countless others keep giving snake human characteristics. They don't like company and they also don't follow around other snakes. They don't come home from a long night of hunting, wanting a beer.

My opinion is with the other 50 or so people that have posted not to house them together.

Good Luck

[paingod]

Hmmmm. before I started getting into ball pythons I bought the
book "The Guide to Owning a Ball Python" by John Coborn.
Now I dont know who he is but on the top of page 19 under the picture he states

"Ball Pythons are quite social animals, and several large or small specimens (though not mixed in size) can
share a sufficiently large cage. They seldom fight, but it is still better to feed each separately to avoid accidents. Most breeders
keep their males and females separately most of the year"

Like I said dont know his qualifications, but he has written a
Poop load of books (58) on reptile care.

http://www.amazon.ca/s?ie=UTF8&searc...0Coborn&page=1

This is just my $.02 and yes I do have 2 juvenile female BP's
housed together for now, and they have been fine.

[catawhat75]

For those of you who do house together, go for it! Don't listen to the advise these people here are giving you, ignore the fact that there are are lots of people with real experience giving you advice when you asked for it. Forget that the worlds leading experts on snake husbandry disagree with you, and for goodness sake, forget how they live in the wild! Oh, and when something happens to your snakes b/c you cant bother with doing what is best for your animals, PLEASE dont complain here!

[aksledneck907]

ok well i am the one that started this thread.... i am going to house my bp's seperatly and slowly introduce them to each other. they are both males so hopefully no accidents will occur and thanks for the advice. i will see how they do when they get introduced and maybe see how they do for a night in the same tank then gradually keep them in the same tank but thats going to be over a like 6 month period and they will be feed seperatly. thank you for the advice though

[python.princess]

Hmmmm. before I started getting into ball pythons I bought the
book "The Guide to Owning a Ball Python" by John Coborn.
Now I dont know who he is but on the top of page 19 under the picture he states

"Ball Pythons are quite social animals, and several large or small specimens (though not mixed in size) can
share a sufficiently large cage. They seldom fight, but it is still better to feed each separately to avoid accidents. Most breeders
keep their males and females separately most of the year"

Like I said dont know his qualifications, but he has written a
Poop load of books (58) on reptile care.

http://www.amazon.ca/s?ie=UTF8&searc...0Coborn&page=1

This is just my $.02 and yes I do have 2 juvenile female BP's
housed together for now, and they have been fine.

i actually have that book and have found a few wrong 'facts' in it. think of it this way, if he's written 58 other books on reptile care... how can he be an expert on all 59 herps? he's got that much experience with each of these creatures? when i read it, i got the impression that all the info was coming from research- not experience.

like i said before, i noticed a huge difference in both my bp's manners and health immediately after separating them. and that's all i'm going to say on the subject....