questions on the surprise my b.p. leave 4 me

ballpython101 · 02-17-04, 10:09 AM

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for the past 5 days i have left my b.p. in the same tank..... 1.1.0
the female is twice the size of the male, but i was wondering if that will effect them on the long run ? whenever i check on them they are in the hiding together........ball up together...

lately i have been finding a funny weird substance in the water bowl.... a light brown with a clear white substance with it ???

does any 1 kno wat im talkin about ? if so ... write back

mykee · 02-17-04, 11:34 AM

Do not keep them together. It will have repricussions in the long term definitely and most probably the short term too. Contrary to what you think, balls do not like the company of other snakes. They are solitary. Do a search on the site, and you'll find plenty of reasons why not to keep two snakes together.

Bartman · 02-17-04, 11:54 AM

could the thing in the water bowl be crap??
(had to ask

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Big Mike · 02-17-04, 11:58 AM

Listen to Mykee's advice.

That stuff in the dish sounds like poop & urates to me.

Vengeance · 02-17-04, 01:33 PM

Question?

What are the downfalls of housing two balls in the same enclousre? I have no intention of doing it but I'm kinda curious as to why. I know from what I've read about other species that they are canibals in that they will eat other snakes, is the same true about Balls?

snakehunter · 02-17-04, 01:37 PM

If one getrs sick, both do

IF the start to eat the same mouse the y need to be helped, neaither can undo their fangs

those ar just a few

Big Mike · 02-17-04, 01:45 PM

Another snake represents competition and that can be stressful. Stress is not a good thing, especially for balls which can be finicky eaters.

Health is more of an issue though. Obviously they could transfer illness to one another. Also, it would be hard to monitor which snake is defecating and when.

The point is, there are no positives and a few negatives.

sapphire_moon · 02-17-04, 03:26 PM

thing is,

one gets sick they both get sick

You can't tell who is sick in the first place, because both of them are using the same space to pass fecal and urates.

so now you have 1 sick snake (possibly 2) and you can't tell who it is. So now you have to take
2 snake to the vet to have them checked out.

And this is just MY personal opinion, but if you can't afford to house two snakes, don't get two snakes. It's far to easy to go pick up an appropriate sized rubbermaid/sterilite bin and have a new cage.

Vengeance · 02-17-04, 03:35 PM

Yea, I never had any intention of housing 2 snakes in the same cage, but I allways heard it was a bad idea just never any of the reasons why.

It's good information to know.

daver676 · 02-17-04, 03:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by snakehunter

IF the start to eat the same mouse the y need to be helped, neaither can undo their fangs

How does any snake "undo" it's fangs?

Balls don't even have fangs.

Balls can spit their food out, I promise.