Poll: multiple snakes

This is for two females in a huge enclosure plenty of hides, places to go, can be separated for feeding. The reason for this poll is I have searched back about 14+ pages in this forum but it seems theres no definite answer if ones wrong or not maybe a bad idea, but not something you can't do. this should make it pretty clear. multiple

Dave,
Good job on learning polls, practice makes perfect, lol
I have several enclosures with multiple snakes due to a recent purchase, they are all boids and came multiply housed. This is NOT a good idea, I believe, for corn snakes and the like, because apparently they will snack on each other.

Well thats not very hospitable for a new roommate. Thanks for the feed back so quickly.

some species take very well to a "community" environment. so much so that they are routinely kept that way. in other cases, individual snakes are best housed separately for a variety of reasons. Personally, I consider ball pythons to be in this category. That is not to say that your snakes won't do ok, or even thrive, in the type of set up you are talking about...the only way to find out is to try, if that is what you really want to do. In any event, I would only consider such housing if, and only if, the to snakes in question are well acclimated to their current situations. My suggestion, if you choose to proceed, would be to set up the enclosure with a temporary divider. Keep it in place when you put the snakes in (one per side, of course). once they are both acclimated to their new homes, you can remove the divider. this will also allow for easy separation for feeding, and (in case they don't do well) can be made permanent.

I never would have believed it untill i saw it!! I had 5 hatchling corns in the same container after hatching and one of the hatchlings first meal was its sibling. wierd stuff these little creatures.

hhmoore,Great you understood me perfectly thats exactly what I'll be able to do if it doesn't work, while my male and female were not as old I put them in the same tank (40 gallon breeder) they acted like they usually do but I separated them a while ago I didn't want an accidental breeding.

i thought about building a huge cage for mine and putting 2 or 3 in there but mine was gonna be a lot bigger than a 40 breeder, i was planning on a cage that was 12'x10'x10' with flexwyatt running under the floor and a a/c and heater (it was gonna be a shed type thing outside) with insulated walls. i was gonna make the floor and inside walls from pvc or some type of plastic. i was gonna have one corner with a waterfall and one corner and another corner with sticks and vines to clib on and alot of hide areas. i would make sure there was temp varientations by the spacing of the flexwyatt under the floor

stupidclauton, The 40 gal breeder is where she's housed now alone, but in the past is when I tested how the snakes would react to each other. (when they were unable to breed, now that another story) The tank for the two adult females will be much bigger being that I want to give them extra space.