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Housing of different types of pythons

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I am pretty new to the snake world. I currently have a breeding pair of red rat snakes, a burmese, and a ball python. I am trying to get suggestions on the housing of the pythons. A friend of mine told me that they can be kept together but i dont want either of them to eat the other. They are close to the same sizes. Anyone know if they should stay seperate of go together?
 
Most will encourage 1 animal/enclosure. If, for whatever reasons, you feel compelled to cohabitate your animals, you should limit the choices to animals of the same species and/or animals from the same geographic territory. This does not eliminate many of the dangers associated with keeping two (or more) snakes in the same enclosure, but at least the animals will have a decent shot at survival. Since ball pythons and burms are from different continents, not to mention that they are very different snakes with different needs, I would not recommend housing them together.

Taking things a step further, aside from the many obvious pitfalls, ball pythons are notoriously shy animals that can go off feed for no apparent reason. Putting one in with an aggressive feeder like a burm (which will QUICKLY get much larger) is not what many would consider in the best interest of the animal.
 
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