Feeding your snakes

[Emmalicious]

my two snakes a Coastal and an Olive have started enjoying living together and don't want to be seperated, I'm worried that they could get aggressive if they are fed together. So my question is... Should I seperate them too feed them or will they be right together?

 

[rumpig]

yes spit them up at dinner time

 

[888lowndes888]

Most certainly separate to feed!

 

[licky]

DEFINATELY seperate

 

[Trouble]

Deffinately separate!! You don't want one snake ending up inside the other!!

 

[funcouple]

separate and keep them in separate enclosures

 

[Vassallo2008]

SEPARATE I Watched a Close mates 2 5 foot carpets get aggresive towards each other because of feeding time ..

 

[888lowndes888]

separate and keep them in separate enclosures

Agreed there!!

 

[Brigsy]

I would be keeping in diff enclosures. Are they male or female?

 

[biggie]

not only feed separate but keep separate thats only asking for trouble plus if they breed i wouldn't want to be you on here

 

[notechistiger]

A coastal and an olive are not good things to keep together. Your snakes don't "want" to be together. Snakes are solitary animals. Forcing them to live together will cause a fair amount of stress for them both. Stress means decreased immune system, meaning your snakes could get sick and die.

Think about it;
Pros: Less enclosures to take up space.
Cons: Stress, difficultly in keeping records (as it's hard to tell who did what crap, etc.), the snakes fighting, possible injuries, decreased immune system and possible death of one or BOTH of your beloved snakes.

Certainly not worth it in my opinion :|

 

[disasterpiece7.0]

One of the originaly RSP collected was rescued from the clutches of a hungry olive. Don't you think you olive might get hungry and start licking it's lips at the sight of your coastal?

I would most definitely be keeping them seperate, not just feeding.

 

[slither]

definately seperate for feeding and they should be kept in different enclosures all the time anyways

 

[Pythonking]

I've feed snakes together before the most important thing is to let them focus on the individual food being offered so they don't go for the same one, however my recommendations is to feed seperately and house seperately, even in your own mindset your focusing more on one snake when looking at its growth rate eating patterns and so forth.

 

[aussie.snakes]

http://www.southernxreptiles.com/Article PDFs/q&a_species_together_lr.pdf

I really don't think they should be together at all. Read through the about link and pay particular attention to the picture at the bottom of the first page.

 

[RELLIK81]

agree with everyone else...i also have a coastal and a olive and they are kept in individual enclosures........
too much risk with fighting

 

[mckellar007]

your snakes dont WANT to be together, they are tolorating each other. as soon as one gets hungry(most likley the olive) it will eat the other. it might not be tomorrow, and it might not be within a year, but eventually, you will end up with one snake. keeping two snakes together is a BIG no no, especially two snakes of different speices, and even more soo two snakes with complete different sizes!!!

 

[fidzy]

i guess that post will give him his answer

 

[fidzy]

what about snakes that are mating partners, is it ok to keep them in the same enclosure year round?

 

[cris]

Here is one someone prepared earlier