Corn Snake Queries....

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Cheers Graham, Maddie and all other posters.
The possible aggression, if they are 2 males....
Is this commonly shown as juveniles or is it unlikely until maturity?
My family have gone away so i'm in charge of feeding the snakes, i'll certainly advise them to get the snakes sexed when they return.
Also wondering how common aggression between 2 males is, is it a rarity thats simply best avoided or is it commonplace and practically guaranteed?

Its not really agression thats the problem, its the fact that one can, and probably will, eat the other. I would suggest a perminant divider or two seperate vivs.

Wouldn't you consider that aggression?
Don't know that it is 2 males or not as yet....
Surely if that was the case (note; i've already taken in that they need feeding seperately) and its natural non-aggressive behaviour then it wouldn't be considered viable to keep 2 females together?

 

[MaddieJ]

Squashing becomes a problem when a larger, thicker snake is in with a smaller, thinner snake. It is not done on purpose in most cases and it is easily resolved, move one of the snakes out of the viv. Any website/forum/breeder/owner will always recommend splitting up two snakes which are two different sizes and weights.

Keeping two girls together is fine.
Two boys must be split up. They will fight, no ifs and buts, however, when is the next question, a question which cannot be answered. Hence it is recommended to not put them together at all, than risk waiting until signs of agro. One can turn on the other for no apparent reason and before you know it, one or both are dead.
Male and female is a bit 50/50 until they reach sexual maturity and you are wanting them to breed. There is also the chance of them prebreeding. Breeding before the female is big enough and healthy enough. Not a good thing.

If you just want some straight forward advice, I suggest this for the near future..

Buy two vivs. Neither need to be more than 16inches long, as you can see, they are quite small. Make sure they have air vents, then put one snake in each of them. Making sure both have a hot end and a cold end and both have hides. As they are babies they will be happy with toilet roll tubes, egg boxes and the like. Of course both need water, enough for them to get into the water but no deeper than they are thick. Then get ya mum to sex them.

Hope all goes well, take some pictures!

 

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Is two corn snake males eating each other a common occurence?
They are in a huge tank (relative to their current size) so have plenty of room....
Have you got a link to a decent description of the scale-sexing method you mentioned?

Two males eating each other would be a common occurence if one was smaller, atleast I should think.However it's basically garanteed they will fight.

Cheers Graham, Maddie and all other posters.
The possible aggression, if they are 2 males....
Is this commonly shown as juveniles or is it unlikely until maturity?
My family have gone away so i'm in charge of feeding the snakes, i'll certainly advise them to get the snakes sexed when they return.
Also wondering how common aggression between 2 males is, is it a rarity thats simply best avoided or is it commonplace and practically guaranteed?

Simply best avoided, definitely backed up from what happened to me.My slightly bigger one probably ate the smaller one.They were only small at this stage, something like 18 inches for the larger one I think.He eventually nearly got up to 3ft, then suddenly months later he crept into a heater guard somehow at night and got literally cooked alive .Anyway, I think it's more likely when they are mature, however with me that was not the case.

Its not really agression thats the problem, its the fact that one can, and probably will, eat the other. I would suggest a perminant divider or two seperate vivs.

Agreed.
Wouldn't you consider that aggression?
Don't know that it is 2 males or not as yet....
Surely if that was the case (note; i've already taken in that they need feeding seperately) and its natural non-aggressive behaviour then it wouldn't be considered viable to keep 2 females together?

It isn't adivised, however it can be done.Just over a year back now I purchased my 3 adult corn snakes, all females and had lived together for basically all of their life.I have had no aggression problems atall.

 

[grahamsokel]

I also have 2 female clutch sister corns living together and they actually stop eating if i seperate them.I do put them into seperate tubs for feeding though and dont put them back into the viv untill all hunting mode has stopped.They are 8 years old now and I hatched them out