Amazon Housing

SerpentLust · 03-30-04, 10:16 PM

Ok, kind of stupid question seeing as how I probably know the answer to the first part of the question, but I thought I'd ask anyways.

As I think everyone knows, I'm shooting for 1.1 neonate ATB's come April 18th. If you don't know, you do now

And I'm looking at the issue of housing. First question being, I'm getting JD Terreriums to build me a nice enclosure and I really wanted to just get them a large enclosure for when they're a bit older that measures 3' L by 2-3' H by 2' D as I was reading many caresheets and it said that the minimum housing requirements for a pair of adult ATB's is 3' by 2' by 2'...here's the stupid question. I'm wondering if I should go with that, or get them two smaller enclosures that they can live in seperately and only put them together for breeding purposes (In three years when they're old enough). I like the idea of one enclosure with the two of them in there, however, I don't know if it's a good idea, keeping in mind I'll feed them seperately.

So, if that's the case that it's NOT a good idea to have a male and female ATB pair housed together, what's the cage requirements for ONE? lol ATB Caresheets are few and far between on the net.

I was planning on a heat lamp (I'm comfortable with them and have the most experience with them when it comes to temp control), but I wouldn't be able to do that if I got two enclosures because I'd want to stack them. So I'd have to figure that part out aswell.

I'm so torn with what to do. I also have a spare tank that would probably work for one of them. Humidity is not a problem as I have tons of practice keeping it up. Anyways, I'll wait for everyone's advice, even though I know the answers will already be, "DO NOT house two snakes together if you can help it", however, for all I know, I could be wrong with ATB's...

Jenn

Kurzix · 03-30-04, 10:25 PM

Well my guess is you know not to house 2 snakes together, you just don;t know why. So here goes...

1) diffrent species have diffrent needs.. ok kinda obvious and doesn;t apply to you, because you said 2 ATBS. (this is for anyone reading and not already knowing)

2) If one snake gets sick so does the other usually. This includes but is not limited to mites, and other parisites.

3) if a fecal examination is done you have no idea who the fecal matter belongs to, unless you watch them long enough to make some...ewwwww

4) feeding together, nothing like 2 snakes going after the same food item (you did say you would feed them seperate tho..)

5) they just might fight and stress each other out

I'm sure a few others can think of some more reasons i left out...but that pretty much sums it up.

Now you know, descion is up to you.

SerpentLust · 03-30-04, 10:28 PM

Why thank you deary

Yeah I did know all that, I just thought I'd ask anyways.

But my question still remains then, what is the cage size requirement for ONE adult ATB?

And I'll have to look into different heating methods *sniffles and waves goodbye to my heat lamp method*

marisa · 03-31-04, 01:41 AM

I can't imagine how difficult it would be too house them together for one reason, the feeding.

They are insane all over you at night time, watching every move. Removing one from the enclosure at feeding time will be tough enough, let alone stressful until they get used to it, if they do. Although its possible it will work fine, just way way more bite dodging than I would do.

Marisa