He missed just a couple of feeds when I first got him, now he is taking fuzzies, hopefully he will grow now didnt have any internal mites, worms or anything, he likes them really warm, I figured he wont eat them at room temperature, now he eats like a champ

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Donna

0.0.1 Uromastyx named Bailey
0.0.1 Savannah Monitor named Cujo
Rosehair Tarantula

Glad Mayhem is doing better Donna!

We keep our corns together, with no problems. We used to keep our 5 adults together when they were babies but have since separated the males from the females. Now we house the 3 females together, and the 2 males together, although this will change when we breed them in a few weeks - the males will be separated, as will the females once they are gravid, so that they can lay eggs in peace, with reduced stress.

We also keep our male and female yearlings together, although again they will be separated soon, as they are getting to sexual maturity and we don't want our female getting pregnant too early.

The only problem we have ever had was the adult males once "wrestled" as they do in the wild, when they are fighting for females. No harm was done, but there have been reports of snakes being cannabilistic, so this is always in the back of our minds, though ours are well fed, and have never had any problems in this area.

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No, I'm opposed to it.

Corns are not communal animals. There are also reported cases of cannibalism. Plus, if one get's sick, most likely the other will too.

Corn enclosures are easy and inexpensive. I'd feel horrible if I cheated and wound up with one, or both corns dead. (Especially since I'd heard before that it's not a good thing to do)

Another concern of mine is stress. When we keep these animals in our captive care, we owe them the best possible lives that we can give them. From what I understand, snakes being solitary animals deserve to have their own space. In the wild they can go long distances and keep to themselves, so doesn't it seem cruel to not even allow them 6sq ft of their own space? Remember, they're NOT humans and in that sense, don't try and make them adapt to the communal lifestyle of humans.

If you do keep them together, I hope that nothing bad happens. It sure would stink if the snakes didn't get what they wanted, just because you got what you wanted.

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Since we separated Jack and Sally a few weeks ago, both of them have become so much more relaxed! I think you're right about the stress, at least in the case of my two little ones. They both used to hide ALL the time, and I had to go digging for them, but now I often see them out in the open, which is really really nice

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If I ever remotely considered it, witnessing my friends hatchling cannibalize its sibling a couple days after they pipped cured me of it.

I keep my two 6 month old together at the moment,until I know what sex they are,and until I build the new terrariums.
But to be on the save side in case they are boy and girl,or to reduce stress,which I read about a lot,I think I will later keep them seperate.

Actually,I read about the BPs that they can be very stressed if they are housed together,I haven't actually read it a lot about the corns,but I guess it counts for every snake.

Even if they are kept together for a while,I don't think that they will miss each other even though they love to snuggle together.We humans like to think that they have feelings like we do!

All mine are seperated now too, and I see a big difference in them making an appearance, maybe they are looking for their mates lol, wondering where they went...

I feel more at ease now though

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Donna

0.0.1 Uromastyx named Bailey
0.0.1 Savannah Monitor named Cujo
Rosehair Tarantula

I dont keep or plan to keep corn snakes, but I have kept other similar species together. I would just make sure they are similar sized and the enclosure is large enough that they can get away from each other if necessary. Once I kept a common kingsnake with a glass lizard of approximately the same size.

Until the snake attacked it and the tail fell off, making it much easier to swallow. Then he swallowed the tail too.

But thats what I like about kingsnakes. They eat anything.

Yes, it should be noted that both hatchling corns were about the same size.
This did not give the little guy any problems, when it came to swallowing his sibling.

I had mine seperate but now the three are together as I am trying to sell them. They get along fine, just don't feed to gether it's a mess of a fight.