Multy species enclosure

[Z Trip]

Hello everyone, I know many of you are on the page of "1 animal, 1 enclosure" and by all means so am I. However, i would like to see if this could work.

I have a enclosure 32Lx20Wx24T. There are two holes in the top for heat lights and 1/3 of the bottom of the tank has a heat pad.

What I would like to do is keep a sand boa(on the bottom, lol) and some geckos/lizards that climb the walls(in the air). I would provide a lower and elevated water bowl and elevated branches and hides for the areboreal species to bask and hide in. The sand boa will get his own stuff on ground level.

What do you guys think of this idea?

 

[ceeej31]

i think you will end up with a happy well fed sand boa, and some disappearing lizards

 

[Sylvias]

yep.
The geckos will inevitably end up on the ground at some point and they are lunch. or the boa may even decide to climb since there is food above him. just cause it's a burrower doesn't mean it wont climb for food.
Community enclosures CAN work but only under very strict conditions.... housing predator and prey together is not the way to do it...

 

[snakeguy101]

If you are going to mix species you need to pick animals from the same habitats that sit in different ecological niches and are commonly found together cohabitating. This does not fill those requirements.

Sorry, I dont think it is a good idea...

 

[Z Trip]

i think you will end up with a happy well fed sand boa, and some disappearing lizards

To be honest, that's fine with me. As long as somethings happy

I was thinking about going with green and brown anoles. They are inexpensive and easy to come by. And/or maybe some house geckos? The are also inexpensive and easy to aquire.

Anything else anyone can think of?

 

[Z Trip]

If you are going to mix species you need to pick animals from the same habitats that sit in different ecological niches and are commonly found together cohabitating. This does not fill those requirements.

Sorry, I dont think it is a good idea...

There arn't many trees in the desert so all the lizards that live out there live on the ground

 

[snakeguy101]

There arn't many trees in the desert so all the lizards that live out there live on the ground

which is why it is probably a bad idea.

 

[Z Trip]

which is why it is probably a bad idea.

I'm not set on doing this, it's just an idea. Idk, I think it's a waste of space(24 inches tall) for a sand boa... But I really want a sand boa. lol.

 

[Pazzoman]

I don't know exactly how long sand boas get. Maybe you can place vines like 10in above the ground, and get a magnatural food dish rock. Or you can get magnatural rocks and place them relatively high.....still if the boa is long enough it may climb the seams of the tank.

 

[coura]

I could actually see this working if you selected a bigger species of lizard, the ideal would be a chameleon like Chamaeleo dilepis or better yet desert cham...of corse I think that is one hard to get lizard. As for anoles.....nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!