Andrea, they look great together! I'm glad you have found that they are settling together well, I'm sure you won't have any problems. Now you just need a fine male to introduce to them...

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Sounds like everything is working out...let's hope it continues

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Thanks Rachel, but I've put aside my breeding plans for a while... I think I was getting WAY ahead of myself too fast. I'm not ready to open up a nursery just yet!
Number one priority is getting Q in shape. I hope that with gentle, regular handling she will become more tame and with regular, decent-sized meals she'll gain some weight back --poor thing.

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they're beautiful together.

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~My Babies~

1 Rosy Boa (male) Chaos
1 Snow Corn (male) Blizzard
1 Anertherystic Corn (male) Bullet
1 Senegal Parrot (male) Shadow
2 dogs (male) Spot (RIP) and Bear

` I have a community of Boids that has been stable for nearly six years. All of them have unusually mild temperament and feeding response.
` They have plenty of room, and two soaking baths, but they seem to prefer to be in contact with one another.
` There has never been any aggression between them. Two of the male Anacondas stage a ritual fight every year, when a female in another cage is in season.
` Most importantly, I started out with animals who's health was known, without doubt.

` Here are a few pix of the community.

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` Fight over female. They puff up like ratsnakes. I've never seen one open its mouth. The other snakes in the community ignore them, during this time.

Thanks for the update Andrea, too bad about Q. At least you were able to rescue her.

Any chance of posting a couple of pics of Q & Talyn's home?

I just picked up a couple of aquariums last week in the garbage, one is a tall hexagon shape about 18" diameter and 30" high. I think it might make for a good home for a gecko or two.

I just found out that a neighbor has 4 leopard Geckoes for sale, My daughter would love to get a lizard.

ttul....

Hi Bill
Check out my new post under Caging: Tropical for a pic of Talyn and Q's terrarium. Unfortunately you can't see them in the pics because they're always under a hide box!
here's the thread: Terrarium and rack

dfr: do you keep pythons and boas together? I think I read somewhere that one or the other can carry viruses that are harmless to one but can be fatal to the other. Not sure if that's true though.
You're group sure looks healthy and content!
Good luck with them!!

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` I'm not sure if they can carry disease they can't catch to another species, but I am sure that there are plenty of diseases common to all of them that they could infect each other with.
` The six snakes in my community were of known health, as babies, and their parent's health was also known. That is one reason I put them together. Their behavior, temperament, feeding responses, and lack of stress, were others.
` They do look good, thanks. If they didn't, I would not keep them together. I'm not trying to save money, or space, on caging. They've been together for six years, now. When they started out, the Ball Python was the big guy. Things have certainly changed. lol

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dfr, the concern over cross species contamination is very valid. There is always a possibilty of the animals passing something between them that they would never encounter in their natural habitat and have no immunities to. The fact that the health of your animals and the parent animals was exemplary may have let you get by with it. It is still not something that I would recommend.

Now that said, you DO have a very good looking group of snakes.
I wish our climate was such as to allow a large outside habitat!

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Me too!!! Well in summer I suppose it's hot and humid enough for an outing on the balcony: but nothing as nice as that!!!

Talyn and Q are still doing very well together: Q is going into shed: she's quite a dark blue/grey. For a while Talyn changed boxes -- I thought maybe Q was too irritable for her: but this morning they were cuddled up again in one of the moist moss boxes!!

They certainly don't seemed stressed. Q ate well (and digested well!!) last week, and Talyn ate tonight.

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