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28-Apr-07, 02:46 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-07 Location: West Brisbane Gender:  | | | Can you keep Snakes together
Well,
There has been been a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest that keeping equal sized same breed snakes together will probably lead to one turning in into a meal for the other.
I have bought two jungles and I want to keep to keep them together and breed so hopefully this will be the definitive poll (or at least close as):
Rules:
1. This is for YOUR experience not for someone else or for something you have read
2. Attempted devouring is classed at as eaten
3. Male vs Male combating is not classed as eating, just a case of 'mine is bigger than yours'
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28-Apr-07, 03:09 PM
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I have some pythons that have been kept together for over 8 years and no probs (feed em out of the cage) , altho 99% of the snakes I own I keep one per enclosure.
Currently I have:
2 enclsoures with two coastal carpets in each(all 4 snakes are over 6 feet)
1 enclsoure with two brown tree snakes(4 and 5 feet)
I only have these together because thats the way they where kept when I brought them. No probs YET.
Last edited by Scleropages; 28-Apr-07 at 03:11 PM.
Reason: Donkys
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28-Apr-07, 03:37 PM
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Snakes ARE NOT social animals and spend most of their lives alone. Of course they congrigate during breeding season, and some species can brumate together during winter, but apart from that they are solitary animals.
Keeping snakes together permately is not natual behaviour, and you are only inviting an accident to happen as well as promoting stress in your snakes. Many people tell you they have kept them together for years with no problems, and its true. But there are also quite a few people who found out the hard way that accidents do happen.
Just 3 weeks ago, one of my workers and a member of this site who has housed a pair of large adult Intergrades of equal size together for over 6 years suddenly found he was the owner of only one very blotted male intergrade.
Accidental canobalism can and does happen at any time with any snakes housed together. I know of first hand(not hearsay) of over 100 cases where snakes have been eaten over the years.Why on earth would you risk the lives of your valued pets. In my opinion, anyone who houses snakes together permently really does not have the best interest of their snakes at heart.
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