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Posted by gila7150 on December 10, 2002 at 14:03:03:
In Reply to: Re: Just got a redtailed green rat snake...more posted by hotshot on December 10, 2002 at 12:28:40:
: : 2. Stress - It may not show, but one or both could become stressed and go off feed, regurge, etc. : 3. Impregnation - if one is a female and the other male, you could end up with a snake being fertilized by the other. This would then leave you with hybrid snakes, since they are not the same ssp. : I would house them seperate. Just my $.02 worth. Good luck. Brian, Chris
: The standard answer you are going to get from the majority of people is the snakes should be housed seperate. I also feel that snakes should be housed seperate. Snakes are solitary animals and only group together under certain circumstances i.e. breeding and hibernation.
: There are good reasons not to house them together.
: 1. Viruses - If one snake catches something, being housed together will only lead to both being infected.
:Brian
You don't need to warn this guy about accidentally creating hybrids by keeping his snakes together because that is probably his intention anyway. 2Garters recently posted on the hybrid forum inquiring about breeding his leucistic rat with his friend's eastern indigo. A few people responded that it probably wasn't a great idea to hybridize a endangered federally protected animal and warned him that an eastern indigo would probably kill or eat his ratsnake. He responded back stating that if that happened he would kill his friends indigo or feed it to his burmese python.
2Garters is either a troll, a child, a moron or all three.
