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Originally Posted by starsevol
Well let's see here...
We have a whole list of reason why you should NOT co-habitate. It appears some people refuse to listen, or believe.
To these people, I ask...
How does co-habitation benefit THE SNAKES?...not how it benefits you. But how does it benefit those you are responsible for?
I was forced to co-hab once. A housing unit had a meltdown in its heating element and nearly started a fire in my house. I had no choice but to cohab 2 pair of corns and it resulted in the death of one of my beautiful girls.
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You're talking about cohabing after years of being solitary... Yea i'd hate to have my own room, then get a room.... Wouldn't you?
This list of arguments to NOT COhabitate are somewhat unfounded...
Stress (its been proven that not all corn-snakes get stressed) Matter of fact I hear about corn snakes not eating when they don't share a cage with another corn snake
Disease (I've read about corn snakes getting a disease without another snake in the cage) and if one of my corn snakes got sick and it was in the same room as another corn snake but different cage, I would do the same for both regardless of which one was sick (since there might be something in their diet that would cause the illiness
Eating each other... (Come on, too many talk like this has happened to them just because they heard about it, not seen it)
Solitary by nature....What animals aren't solitary by nature, heck people are solitary by nature....
Everything named is a reason not to have a corn snake, not just a reason to not co-hab them.
Before you/anyone can talk about reasons not to cohab, I think new reason need to be found why not... because the old arguments just don't seem enough......
I will say this against Co-Habing... if you have 5+ snakes in one cage, then yes I would imagine over time that could become bad, but the key word is imagine