caging 2 bp's together

[operation_sssss]

They were apart for four months, When i seperated them i left one in the original enclosure and the other in a simmilar size viv, but within a week of putting them back in the same enclosure they fed

[BoidKeeper]

Course I do not keep records of when they poop or eat

How do you know which one is defficating and when? I mean unless your watching it occure how so you really know which snake defficated?
Trevor

[Orryll]

Just got back from taking my boa to the vets. He was very informative on housing snakes.

Tanks work just as well as rubbermaid containers. and two of the same snakes if the same size can be housed together. Yes if you record when your snake eat and poop and have a lot of snakes it would be easier to keep separate and in rubbermaids. and that is a rough quote from the vet

[BoidKeeper]

That vet has either never bred snakes or his/her business is slow, or both. Any vet the would say it was a good or acceptable practice to keep two snakes together is lacking in the most basic husbandry knowledge. It's as simple as this. In a school when one student gets a cold over half the school gets a cold because they are all in the same room. So if one snake gets sick they both get sick.
I don't understand why people would want to keep more then one snake in a cage anyway? Why do people do it, what do they get out of it? Or more importantly what do they think the animals get out of it. Snakes are solitary creatures in the wild so why do people think it is ok to force a roomate upon them?
If a person wants more then one snake but can't afford the extra cage for that snake then I think they should not buy the snake. I see it too often, someone who wants another snake but can't afford both the snake and the cage so they buy it beacause they just have to have it and then stick it in with their first snake as a way to save room. Well when they both get sick and die it will be a tuff lesson for them but at least they can't say they weren't warrend.
Trevor

[marisa]

Boidkeeper, nice post and you are SOOOO right.

WHY WHY WHY people insist on doing this I have no idea.

You have two options. Option one is house together with a huge risk of problems, and no benefits for the snake, the SNAKE mind you, not the human. Or option two, housing alon which has ZERO of the same risks, AND benefits the snake.

Gee I wonder what I will choose for my snakes.

There is not ONE reason to house snakes together that benefits the snakes. Not ONE. Period.

People constantly do it because they are cheap. That's the only reason to house together. I have yet to hear another. And I have heard 0 when it comes to why this benefits the animals.

Marisa

[Jeff_Favelle]

Just got back from taking my boa to the vets. He was very informative on housing snakes.

Yeah, you need to get a new vet.

[sapphire_moon]

Get a new vet...as everyone else has said..........