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Advice Needed Please

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ardentglow

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I just bought myself a second cornsnake. My first cornsnake is a sunglow corn and about 16 inches. My new snake is an anery cornsnake and about 12 inches long. They are both the same thickness.

My question is - can house them together? Do I need to wait until the new one grows a bit before I put them together?

Right now I have the new one inside a small enclosure that is inside my first snake's enclosure. If I can house them together, I wanted them to get used to eachother.
 
No, you can't ever house them together, unless you don't care that they are being stressed. Snakes do not like to live with other snakes. At best, they tolerate it. One will always be unhappy.
 
You should never house cornsnakes together...they are by nature solitary animals. Forcing them to share space can cause illness and stress and shorten their lifespans. If they are male and female, the male will constantly mate with the female, causeing her stress and possibly causing her to become eggbound, which could kill her. Plus if one snake gets sick or has a regurge, how would you know which snake is sick if they both live in the same cage?

Imagine someone locking you inside a house with a person you can't stand....forcing you to live with that person. Forever. Humans are social creatures while snakes are not, but in a situation like that, even YOUR health would be compromised......
 
Everybody has given the good advice already. LOL. I arrived at this site just in time to be given this advice too. Seems like we all start off wanting them to live together in harmony! If you want more details, use the search function here to find "2 corns in one cage" from last autumn. The bad things that can happen are spelled out. It sure stopped me from putting 2 corn snakes in the same enclosure!
 
This just goes to show that the workers at pet stores really don't know what they are talking about! Thanks for the advice everybody!
 
You'd think more petstore workers would say no, because then they could sell you an extra set-up. I guess they figure if they say yes, it's okay, you'll be killing off snakes right and left and have to buy replacements.
 
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