Quote Originally Posted by aksledneck907 View Post
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
I am with Deborah on this. Like she said, why bother to ask if you aren't going to listen??
I haven't said anything in this thread yet, because the majority of everyone that has posted has said what I would've said. That you should not house those BP's together. In my mind, the thoughts of all the things that could happen far outweigh any supposed "benefit" of keeping them together. As keepers of these snakes, we have to do the best thing that we can for them, and the possibilities of stress, domination, one eating the other, possible breeding, etc. from housing together is NOT doing the best that we can.
You talk about introducing them like they are dogs or cats, THEY ARE NOT. And in my mind, if you are going to house them seperately for about 6 months anyway, why change that??
I'll admit that at one time when I was newer with BP's I thought that it would be no problem to house them together, until I started hearing stories about things that go wrong and seeing the pics of what happens when one eats the other and you end up losing BOTH SNAKES. (By the way does anyone know off hand the link to some of those pics??? I try to look for them again in a little bit...maybe that would help here..) BP's live for about 20-30 yrs, are you going to watch them that closely for that long to make sure nothing happens to them?? You may have the thought of mind that those things won't happen to you, that you will watch your snakes much better than that.... but personally I would rather err on the side of caution and do the best that I can for my snakes. I would rather listen to what the bigger keepers/breeders on this forum have to say about housing snakes, seperate enclosures have worked for them extremely well so I'll take their advice and their experience and use it to benefit my snakes anyday.