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OMG! my worst fear near enough happened!

Missy

Missy

loves her little darlings
hello all
okay now i have to start with an apology to everyone who i disagreed with about keeping corns together.
had a little mishap last night.
now i am one of those peeps who sees nothing wrong with keeping corns housed together. damn i was wrong. all of mine are now separated for good.
i fed two of my girlies, diaga (2 1/2 yrs) and poppy (4yrs) last night. poppy had made a little mess of hers and she had blood and whatnot down her face. diaga was still busy eating on the opposite side of the viv. its 5 ft in length the viv. anyways before me or my dad could do anything diaga zoomed like lightning to poppy and just struck at poppy's face. i immediately just kept saying "omg! omg! omg!" my dad hit the both of them on their heads, now it wasnt a heard hit at all, more like a tap to distract diaga. it worked though, diaga never did get poppy, she never even caught any part of her face, she had actually missed when she had struck. but it was a too close of a call for my liking. poppy had cleaned herself up by this time, we watched the both of them for a couple of minutes but diaga kept sort of pulsating against poppy, freaking her out, now poppy has recently lost the sight in one of her eyes so shes been very vulnerable, so we took diaga out that same night and put her back in her original viv. i aint risking it anymore thats for sure, now i agree with everyone else, housing 2 together you are asking dor trouble, i was very lucky that diaga had missed, dunno what we would have done if she had latched onto poppy. the thing is diaga is the smaller one and youngest. its weird, but poppy is a lot more dosile than diaga. shes a feisty one just like her mother. LOL.
just thought id share that nasty little experience with you all.
 
Thanks for sharing Missy. I'm glad your snakes were ok. When I first got my corn I used to think I would house two snakes together until I also read of the experiences on here. Too many risk factors. Maybe the little one is beginning to feel a bit more threatened eating in the same viv as a larger one?
 
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Glad their both OK

Must have been quite a scare. Glad they are both OK and you were watching when it happened. Wecome to the "don't risk it" team, and thank you for your honest post.
 
Not to nock what you are saying, and I will house no corns together, other than the two that are together now (been together for 3 years). But, if you would have fed each seperatly and in different containers, you would have been able to wash up poppy before any of this happened. The reason for Diaga's action was the scent of blood and mouse on poppy.

May I ask why you feed snakes inside their vivs? especially when there are 2 snakes in the same viv?
 
I have a question. What if the Corn Snakes are of the same age when put into the same tank together? From my experience withy mammals, I find when you introduce a younger animal in with an older it usually spells tragedy. Also, could the one have snapped at the other because it was feeding time? I plan on feeding all my snakes in different temporary enclosures because I had read especially females tend to get aggressive when fed in the same enclosure all at once.
 
Age has no impact.

Anytime you house two solitary snakes together in close confinement there is a risk of incident.
 
I am dissapointed in you today CAV...No links to the scary pictures.

Even though I am keeping 2, 3 year old snakes in the same enclosure right now, as soon as I get my rack built (This winter) I plan on seperating them. After all the pictures and stories of tragedy I have read on here, I have decided to stop taking the risk. But, there are other problems that you can have with 2 in one enclosure besides canablism...You could also have the problem of early/accidental, on your part, breeding that could cause egg binding and possibly death.
 
I completely agree with CAV...
I have always had kingsnakes so I have never thought about housing any of my snakes together, regardless of breed...I always make preparations for separate housing before getting the snakes...
I realize wild corns don't make a habit of eating other snakes like kings do (hence the name king) but it does happen...someone posted corns for sale recently and had to change from 6 to 5 because one of the hatchlings ate one of it's brothers...don't know the circumstances...feeding them together is a good way to get an eaten snake.
I met a king breeder who has successfully kept multiple kings in enclosure together for many years...always puts them together at hatching...always feeds mice, separately. Never introduces new snakes to the enclosure...but I still think it is a risk not worth taking.

Always better to be safe than sorry.
 
thank you all for your replies
they have lived together for quite some time now they are used to each other and they are never seen laying separately.

babbaloo99 - yes it is a possibility that diaga felt threatened by poppy.

pcar - i know diaga didnt strike at poppy through her just being aggressive, it was purely accidental on her part, she simply mistook poppy as a mouse, it was a big mistake on my part thats for sure and i put both of them at risk, again, *throws hand up* my fault!
i have always fed them in their viv's, they have feeding plates in there, so they cannot ingest no wood chippings. its a 5ft viv, they get fed opposite ends, i hold one mouse for one of them, my dad does the other, they both strike at the mouse, eat at the same time and speed, never have had this any problems before.

godzilla2000 - well i never knew females are more agressive when being fed, thats new to me. also even though diaga is 2 and poppy is 4, they are the same length and size, poppy used to be a problem feeder so thats why shes small, poppy used to live with another female of mine, skitzy, whos 5 yrs old and there was a big size difference thats why i moved poppy in with diaga, even though theres only a yr apart from skitzy and poppy, the size was too different.

CAV - you of all people i owe an apology to. i have had a debate with you before about housing snakes together, you were right. and yes experience is worth a thousand words. i really dont wanna have to see pictures of any sort. my call was close enough, LOL.

well now they are all living separately and they are gonna stay that way for good now. it really was a big mistake of mine, i kinda saw my ones as having a protective bubble around them and the things i have read on here i took no notice of i just thought "that cant happen to my little darlings" well that certainly opened up my eyes thats for sure.
thanx all for your input once again.
 
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