metallica
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Can I place a diamond and a jungle in the same tank with out any confrontation? Or will they be teratorial or aggressive towards each other?????
Snakes sharing a tank?
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beeman
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IMO No, If you cant afford an enclosure for each animal dont get the second one, Other than that diamonds have a vastly different requirment from the jungle
Fantazmic
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There was a thread about this in the last couple of days and a wonderful article was attached to one of the replies...and I cant find it.
basically they dont recommend housing snakes together because
1. if one snake makes a mistake and decides to eat the other one you end up with two dead snakes....and this can happen even if the snakes are relatively the same size.
2. If one snake is dominated by the other snake....imagine living with another snake knowing it wants to eat you.....then you increase the chances of stress related illness in the snake that is being dominated
3. the dominant snake can take all the best basking spots etc and the less dominant snake can end up getting temperature related stress related illness.
There were a few other reasons I cant remember but they are the main ones....there was something else about mixing species too something about agression etc between species that also made mixing species not recommended.
Have a search in the threads i am sure you will find the original topic and some others related to it.
Elizabeth
basically they dont recommend housing snakes together because
1. if one snake makes a mistake and decides to eat the other one you end up with two dead snakes....and this can happen even if the snakes are relatively the same size.
2. If one snake is dominated by the other snake....imagine living with another snake knowing it wants to eat you.....then you increase the chances of stress related illness in the snake that is being dominated
3. the dominant snake can take all the best basking spots etc and the less dominant snake can end up getting temperature related stress related illness.
There were a few other reasons I cant remember but they are the main ones....there was something else about mixing species too something about agression etc between species that also made mixing species not recommended.
Have a search in the threads i am sure you will find the original topic and some others related to it.
Elizabeth
Fantazmic
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yes that was one of the other reasons for not mixing species differnt requirements
Elizabeth
Serpentess
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In short, it's a terrible idea for many reasons.
So please, please, please do not do it.
So please, please, please do not do it.
PhilK
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Those two snakes have vastly different requirements..
metallica
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Thank you all for your posts, your advice and warnings are noted. Looks like I'll have to wait a little longer.
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