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Why having two cornsnakes in one viv is !@#$ing dumb.

Sarynkitamo

Sarynkitamo

<3 Corn Snakes
This happened a couple days ago, so I'm calmer about it now. And first-off, this didn't happen to me! I've only got the one snake, and I really like to think I'm not thick enough to put two in one viv even if I did have two!

An online friend of mine has cornsnakes, and apparently the other day he had quite a scare. Apparently he was feeding his two corns. Now, I didn't know he kept them together else I'd have chewed him out on it long before this, but from what I gather one is older/larger than the other.

He fed them in their cage (a personal no-no for me) and together, without taking one out and letting his fiancee handle it for a bit. As you can probably tell, things went wrong. Each snake latched on to a different end of the pinkie and, as you can expect, the bigger snake started to eat the smaller one.

I didn't ask him how he got them separated, but once I'd ascertained that the smaller snake wasn't the dinner of the larger I gave him probably one of the fiercer online text-lashings I've ever given someone!

Keeping two cornsnakes together is one thing. FEEDING them together is completely another. I told him that if it was within his means to do so, then get a tank for each snake, and that if I have to march down to the States and force him to buy a $5 plastic container to put each snake in when they're being fed then I'll bloody well do it!
 
Hopefully he learned his lesson! We can hope that he will atleast FEED them in separate containers from now on, if not separate them all together. It sounds like you did all you could and the rest of us thank you for telling your friend what he should do from now on.
 
Dumb...Dumb...Dumb...
Most of the members here already know this story, but due to a heated rack literally melting in my house, I had to co-hab 2 ball pythons and 4 cornsnakes (in 3 cages) for a few weeks in the spring of 2005.
I ALWAYS fed them seperately, leaving one in the cage (I use newspaper not aspen so nothing can be ingested) and one in a plastic bin.
One of my snakes STILL died as an indirect result of cohabbing. 3 years later I still choke up thinking about her...
 
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