Corns Together ?

[Biggz69]

I've had my male corn for about 1 1/2 years and i just got him a mate (female) when she gets big enough can I keep them together all the time ? Or would this be a problem ?

[Simon]

I personally would never recommand keeping two snakes together in one tank. There are so many things that could happen.
1) Both Males end up fighting and really stressed out because of two males in one enclosure
2) Both Females end up very stressed out and end up not eating
3) Male and Female end up early breeding which doesn't effect the male that much but for females this could mean causing it's life. Early breeding can lead to egg bound and decrease in life expenctancy.

Also other reasons why keeping two snakes together isn't much of a good idea is because
1) when one gets sick the other is highly at risk of getting it too
2) hard to keep track on which regurgiated (if occured)
3) cannibalism this can be proved by many people.

These are just some of the reasons why I would not recommand keeping two snakes together. If you have any more question you can email me at
candycanecorn@hotmail.com

[Biggz69]

Phil ,

Thanx Phil , and Simon for your opinons ! I will keep you guys updated on what happens between them !!!

[Simon]

Phil, just a little note. Yes the males do actually fight. They don't do it often but once it get close to breeding time they do actually fight and can cause harm to each other. They don't fight often but they do....

[Lisa]

According to The Corn Snake Manual (Bill Love and Kathy Love) keeping male and female corns together is no problem. You don't have to worry about them copulating if you don't brumate them.

You do want to watch feeding as most instances of canablisim is due to the corns both grabbing the same prey item. I suggest seperate feeding containers.

[Simon]

Lisa,
.....not to oppose you or anything....
but they do not necessary need to be burmated in order to breed. Breeding can occur without burmating....
you can ask this question on other forums to see if burmatation is necessary to make them breed......

sorry if I sounded rude...

[jsnake0]

i have poof that burmating is not necessary i breed my 4 year old
albino gopher last year and she laid 8 eggs 5 of which hatched with perfect babies. first time breeding it took a little longer for
her to warm up to the male but she and he still got their groove on .
will cool her this year, hope for a bigger clutch
next year i can breed my corns can't wait

[Kyle Walkinshaw]

Simon is right in that burmatation does not have to occur for corns to breed, infact you don't need to do anything really just place them in the same enclosure and let them do all the work :)

As for feeding, under no circumstances should a snake be fed in his/her enclosure. ALWAYS feed in a smaller container to 1) Higher chance your snake will accept the prey 2) If they are fed in an enclosure there's the chance they will ingest the mulch of whatever you have as your substrate.

And as for males fighting, I have no experience with that but I keep my two females with 1 male and have never had any kind of problems so community housing is ok. :)

Kyle-

[tai_pan1]

I have two males that have been together their entire life. I've never observed any problems between the two. Actually, they tend to stay together and ball up in the same hide box. I have several hide boxes so they do have a choice.

I've just purchased two female neonates and have kept them together for a short time and have seen no problems between the two.

I always feed my corns seperately in a container that I keep just for feeding. My two males know when it's feed time when they go in the box.

[Biggz69]

thanx for the info peeps

Biggz