Quote Originally Posted by hobbyist View Post
Ok, So I have a question for readers of this thread/forum

I have to temporarily house two of my snakes together while I order heat tape and build an enclosure for them as well as other snakes coming in. I have a full grown 5' and over 1500 gram male, a 2.5' young male, and a 2' young female. The female i'm estimating is about 500 grams. I am going to house the two in a 100 gallon tank with 4 hides- two on each side of the temperature gradient. They have all been near each other, and quarantined adequately.
I'm worried that if I stick my female and the young male in the cage together, that they would attempt to breed- and possibly jeopardize the female's life if she becomes egg-bound. I'm not even sure if she's capable of breeding yet- nor the male for that reason. I dont want to stick the big one in with the others, because i'm worried about size problems.
It's only temporary, a few weeks at most.

What should I do?
thanks
For around $75.00 + the T-stat (which you probably already have for the 100 gallon tank.) you can build a nice 32qt 3 tub rack. Price includes flex watt and tubs. As a general rule for building buget racks I put the price down as $25 per level + the overall cost of the T-stat, but if you go less than 3 levels the cost overall goes down, but the cost per level goes up and vise versa if you go taller. If I put my mind to it I can easily build one on a day off. At this point no reason exists to do what you are intending to do since you already have some kind of seperation due to quarantine that you can keep up for another week or two while you build the rack.

On the other hand if you do have to do it you should be OK as far as actual breeding possibly taking place since the female will not cooperate. The only additional issue I see here is you will have 2 males and 1 female in an enclosure if I am reading it correctly. I'm not sure if this may cause some fighting between the males as part of the mating ritual. I have never personally put two males together in one enclosure and do not really have any intention of trying.