I've been considering a cohab.
I've been designing and everything for the new cages for my half dwarf Burm and my half superdwarf quarter Jampea Retic. I'm planning to make the cages nice and naturalistic, and I plan to attempt live plants. I highly doubt it will work, but heck it might and I've got nothing to lose.
Now, to the point, these cages will be quite large and while I would obviously never consider putting both pythons together, I have been thinking it would be interesting to have some small, inexpensive geckos in with them, to liven the tank up a bit. I have been thinking Flying Geckos would be nice for the retic, and I have yet to decide on a species for the burm. I may go for Flyers with him too, but I would like to go with something else.
Now, before I try with anything like that, I would do some experiments with say house geckos to see how it works. My primary concern is whether the snakes will see the gecko smell as a food smell. I'm not too concerned apart from that, since (most) geckos are not very active, and wouldn't constantly be moving and bothering the snakes, and being cold blooded, they shouldn't appear a target, since both snakes focus on the heat signature rather than the movement. Anyone know if either species has been known to eat reptiles on occasion in the wild?
So, on to my main two questions:
1) What are everyone's opinions on this? Yea or nay?
2) If yea, what might be a good species to put in with the burm?
I've been designing and everything for the new cages for my half dwarf Burm and my half superdwarf quarter Jampea Retic. I'm planning to make the cages nice and naturalistic, and I plan to attempt live plants. I highly doubt it will work, but heck it might and I've got nothing to lose.
Now, to the point, these cages will be quite large and while I would obviously never consider putting both pythons together, I have been thinking it would be interesting to have some small, inexpensive geckos in with them, to liven the tank up a bit. I have been thinking Flying Geckos would be nice for the retic, and I have yet to decide on a species for the burm. I may go for Flyers with him too, but I would like to go with something else.
Now, before I try with anything like that, I would do some experiments with say house geckos to see how it works. My primary concern is whether the snakes will see the gecko smell as a food smell. I'm not too concerned apart from that, since (most) geckos are not very active, and wouldn't constantly be moving and bothering the snakes, and being cold blooded, they shouldn't appear a target, since both snakes focus on the heat signature rather than the movement. Anyone know if either species has been known to eat reptiles on occasion in the wild?
So, on to my main two questions:
1) What are everyone's opinions on this? Yea or nay?
2) If yea, what might be a good species to put in with the burm?
