Food Fight...

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I was just wondring, if i fed my two snakes together in the same tank, (of course not right next to each other!) would they be ok?
my first thought is no way but then thats just me and im no snake expert, every time i watch them eat their food it amazes me how the heart, lungs etc don't seem to get in the way.
So if i did feed them together they would probably fight ..right?
Because food to snakes seems to be crucial as my friend found out, he fed both his grass snakes together and the larger of the two snakes found a bit of mouse tail lying around, only about 3-4 cm long and when he saw the other snake he struck at it with no hesitation! , luckily he managed to seperate them before something nasty could have happened.


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well acutally I have heard and seen a lot of people feed their snakes together in the same enclosure.

Some people say that as long as you keep a good eye on them so that they are not eating the same food item or stricking at each other as food, then it's alright. That is why you are keeping an eye on them. If they are eating the same food item at the same time, the one that gets bitten on the head is usally the one that is going to be eaten. So if you are thinking of feeding them in the same enclosure that is one thing that you have to keep an eye on.

Even if you are not feeding the snakes in the same enclosure but it's living in the same enclosure, there is still a chance for them to eat one another up.....since both have eaten a/some mouse/mice, they will have mouse breath....where they smell like mouse after eating a mouse. If one of them is still hungry and smells out that the other snake smells like mouse, why not eat it since it thinks it's only a mouse. That should be why the two garters started to attack each other.

In my own humble opinion, I would not feed them together....less chance for them to eat each other...and I would not house them together too~~~

hope this helped~

Although you probably could feed them in the same tank (as long as you kept an eye on them) i think it would be a lot easyer to put them in seperate containors so you don't have to sit there and watch them eat i don't know about you but i find after seeing them eat so many times i just get bored of it. What colour are grass snakes?

If you must feed them in the same tank, put up a divider or something so they won't end up going for the same mouse and one won't end up eating the other.
btw that pop up is quite annoying

i know someone who keeps rosy boa females to gether she will feed one at one end of the box and the other at the other end, to be onist with you i wouldnt at all but if you have to i would take one of the snakes out and feed it seperatley, she once had to slice a mouse in half because they went for the same one so my answer is no

Before I lost Sobek, I had them in the same enclosure, and in the beginning, tried to feed them together. the Mayor is a much more aggressive feeder than Sobek was. I put one pinkie on either side of the tank, one with each snake. The Mayor ate his pink completely down, then headed right over to Sobek, and she took off back into her hide, and he ate the other one. I thought about stopping him, but by the time I realized what was happening, he already had the second pink halfway down, and certainly didn't want to take it from him. I was really worried, because at the time he was barely over a month old, and I thought 2 pinkies was probably too big a meal for him. But he did OK. That's one thing I'll say for the Mayor, he eats like a champ! But I had to take Sobek out of the tank to feed her seperately out of fear that the Mayor would eat every mouse I put in there!

just a thought...
not only would i not feed them at the same time, i wouldn't even feed them in the tank- I feed all my snakes in a separate container- i usually feed the first one and then the second one and keep them separate for awhile- not holding them, of course

just my own thoughts, of course...