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BehaviorGeneral topics or questions concerning the way your cornsnake may be acting.
I am assuming the link is to the pics of the BP eaten by the Boa...
The link didn't work...I may be able to find another...I have seen this posted to SEVERAL forums.
And you hit it right on the head...it is NOT a good idea...all it takes is one wrong thing to happen...and you have a dead snake. Not worth the risk in my book. I care too much about them to risk it...besides the major time and monetary investment.
WARNING: THESE PICTURES ARE GRAPHIC...IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE REALITY OF NATURE, DO NOT CONTINUE
Here are the pics...the Bob Clark link no longer works...but I found them at Alex Hue Reptiles Forum...and saved them.
This is why you don't house two snakes together.
Boa Constrictors are not known for eating other snakes in the wild...eating mostly warm blooded prey, although they are opportunistic feeders also eating frogs, iguanas, and caimans.
I saw them the other day on another thread, and it's true this is a worst case sinario. But who would house a python and a boa together? Not me that for sure, hell i don't even like breeding a rat snake to a corn snake, but sometimes people want the crossed ofspring they produce.
A Ball Python and a Boa cannot breed...as far as I know.
They were just housed together (for lack of space...or whatever other reason people would ever house two snakes together)
This is just what can happen...my point is that everyday your snakes are housed together, you run the risk of this happening.
I saw them the other day on another thread, and it's true this is a worst case sinario. But who would house a python and a boa together? Not me that for sure, hell i don't even like breeding a rat snake to a corn snake, but sometimes people want the crossed ofspring they produce.
It wasn't about crossing offspring. It's about housing snakes together. I'm sure we could find pictures of cornsnake cannabilisum as well. I just thought it a good heads up to make people aware that it CAN happen (in all different species)...and those that keep their snakes together run the risk every day...
I didn't mean that the python and boa was being crossed.
As to canablism I know it can and does happen in corns and most other types of snakes, my point was who would keep a boa and python together for whatever reason!!!
2 of the same for space saving, yeah it makes more sence, but 2 differant species of snake housed together? I wouldn't risk it with 2differant species.
An uneducated or uncaring person. It happens all the time. I've seen many threads on the Bob Clark forums... "I want to put my ball in with my cornsnake." "I house my redtail with my ball and don't have any problems"
If you are incapable of housing the animals properly (ie each to their own viv)...then DON'T GET THEM.
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It happens all the time. I've seen many threads on the Bob Clark forums... "I want to put my ball in with my cornsnake." "I house my redtail with my ball and don't have any problems"
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