House snake care?

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Ok, I've finally talked my grandmother into letting me get a house snake. She wouldn't let me get a python, so I talked her into the next closest thing. I haven't gotten them yet, so I want to know everything about their care before getting them. I'm going to set up a 20 gallon for a pair, and I'm going to either get a divider or have a separate tank ready in case they like each other a little too much.:D
 
I dont know about their heating needs, so I'll let someone else touch that.

You don't need divders. You can do a pair together, but make sure they have plenty of room (and for snakes thats not very much) and seperate hides. Be careful when feeding.

Set yourself up a few inches of aspen and 2 or 3 cork bark flats.
 
Thanks for your advice. I was just going to get the divider in case they were having too many babies, because I've heard they breed like mice.
 
No one said you had to incubate the eggs. Monitor breeders, for example Frank Retes, can only afford to incubate like 1/4 of the eggs. Ackies under good condition can produce 150+ eggs a year with multiple clutches year-round. I dont know if house snakes are the same, but you can incubate, hatch, and sell (or keep) a few, and if you have other pets that would eat the eggs, free food! :)
 
Loco That ain't the problem incubating them or not...it's the poor female carrying the eggs and giving birth to 'em again and again and again..it would probably eventually kill her from stress.. :screwy:
 
Dude, NOT breeding is stress. Thats the purpose of life (make of that what you will...). If they dont want to breed, they wont! They have a limit as to amount of eggs they can produce. I dont know what this is though, but thats the idea...

About incubating: Some animals produce too many babies for the breeder. Frank Retes, for example. His monitors are kept outdoors, and he just lets the ants take care of eggs he doesnt have room for. He only hatches what he wants to, and theres nothing wrong with that.
 
Get one thing straight Loco. If not breeding is stress. Over breeding is certainly stress. You don't know WTF your on. Ahh guys DO NOT TAKE this fool's advice. He doesn't want them to breed incase he can't find homes for them.. this is RESPONSIBLE KEEPING. So don't talk him in to it, or try. All animals can only produce a certain amount of eggs, but if producing the maximum or near maximum this will stress them out. Go away an come back advise when you have RESEARCHED ;) A women can have a baby every year, should it be done? No. TOO stressful.
 
snakes are not like people , they follow the natural order to have as many babies as possible before they die .


think if there was no condoms . woman would be pregnant constantly :popcorn:
 
This isn't true. Breeding and laying too much will cause her to lose wait and will cause her stress.. hence why even big breeders don't overbreed their animals..
 
Of course snakes are not like humans it doesn't need saying. But you can't deny that breeding an animal from the word go to the day it dies (not that much long after most likely) is unhealthy, unfair and unreasonable.

In the wild.. the animals could go their seperate ways.. and the female would go where ever they go to breed IF she was in condition to breed the following year..
 
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